Quotes About Simplicity

I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectual-ism and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify, simplify.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.

I never thought of myself as a writer, but the simplest thing seemed to be to put a piece of paper in the roller and start typing.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

The simplest things give me ideas.

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.

When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.