Quotes About Simplicity

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.

Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing or appreciating it.

good things have banal ingredients.

On the one hand, we may try to achieve more; and on the other, we may reduce the number of things we want to achieve.

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones. The sun

Chardin had shown him that the kind of environment in which he lived could, for a fraction of the cost, have many of the charms he had previously associated with palaces and the princely life.

The ultimate goal of the art lover should be to build a world where works of art have become a little less necessary.

A few moments in the countryside overlooking a valley could number among the most significant and useful of one's life, and be as worthy of precise remembrance as a birthday or a wedding.

There is beauty,' she said, 'in the least beautiful things.

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

Less explanation is more convincing than more explanation.

Simplicity is not the opposite of wealth. It is the door to the riches you already own

while most readers recognize the profound wisdom imbued in Tao Te Ching, the language remains mysterious to many. Utter simplicity can seem confusing to the complicated mind.

The answer is simpler than you think.

One of my colleagues in the cellular-telephone business was complaining about how the engineers had made cell phones hard to use by packing in so many rarely used features. She said that cell phones were wet dogs. When I inquired about her metaphor, she explained, You have to really love a wet dog a lot to want to carry it around.

programmers believe that their own imperatives of construction simplicity and ease of acquisition—of prewritten source code in their case—take precedence over any suggestions made by others.

Design Is a Big Word

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là" ("I have no need for that assumption

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...