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Quotes about Simplicity


The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.

Robert Burns

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Plato

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

John F Pilgrims

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Katherine F. Gerould

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Paul Dickson

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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

Richard Halloway

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

Lin Yutang

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

Chinese Proverb

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Albert Schweitzer

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it

James F Cooper

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Katherine F. Gerould

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles Dudley Warner

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.

Thomas More

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.

Eugene Delacroix

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

A.n. Whitehead

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Walt Whitman

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Henry David Thoreau

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

Thomas Sowell

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

Hank Stram

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