quotations about simplicity
When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
DAVID LEVITHAN
Every Day
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
attributed, Engines That Move Markets
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. SCHUMACHER
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
The simple things are 90 percent of the ball game. Every now and then you get a great play, but that takes a bit of luck or being in the right place at the right time. If we can do the simple things this team will be okay.
AL BUTLER
Savannah Morning News, August 12, 2017
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
WILLIAM GADDIS
The Recognitions: A Novel
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
FANNY KEMBLE
Further Records, January 20, 1875
Cultivate simplicity ... or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart, and carries into daylight with it its own modest buds, and genuine, sweet, and clear flowers of expression.
CHARLES LAMB
letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, November 8, 1796
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Émilius: Or, A Treatise on Education
Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.
OVID
attributed, Day's Collacon
By small and simple things are great things brought to pass.
BOOK OF MORMON
Alma 37:6
Keep it simple, stupid.
KELLY JOHNSON
KISS principle, Clarence Leonard (Kelly) Johnson 1910-1990: A Biographical Memoir
It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.
ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY
L'Avion
Simplicity is the first thing that is lost, and the last that is regained.
LORD ACTON
Acton; Or, the Circle of Life: A Collection of Thoughts and Observations Designed to Delineate Life, Man, and the World
Happy he who is able to reclaim himself, who finds the way back to simplicity.
CHARLES WAGNER
The Simple Life
Less is more.
ROBERT BROWNING
Andrea del Sarto
The simplest things are often the truest.
RICHARD BACH
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
There is one show of breeding vulgarity seldom assumes -- simplicity.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Mary Marston
If it is impossible for us to be simple in the forms our fathers used, we may remain simple, or return to simplicity, in their spirit.
CHARLES WAGNER
The Simple Life
Simplicity
That's the way life should be
Simplicity
Easy as one, two, three
THIRD WORLD
"Simplicity"