Simplicity Quotes

Simplicity makes me happy.

— Alicia Keys

Simplicity is the key.

— Ritchie Blackmore

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

— Novalis

“Simplicity is complex.”

— Jayce O'Neal

Mo' money, mo' problems.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Simplicity is a most complex form

— Duke Ellington

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

— Tim Ferriss

“...simplicity is comforting.”

— Veronica Roth

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

— Douglas Adams

“In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down.”

— Todd Stocker

From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

— Albert Schweitzer

“Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.”

— elizabeth enright

“It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.”

— Álvaro de Campos

Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning

— Anonymous

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

— Edward de Bono

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

— Wendell Berry

All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open,…

— Gangaji

“The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our…

— Colum McCann

Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

— Walter Bender

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to…

— Stromae

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already…

— Robert Breault

“The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.”

— Anonymous

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this…

— John Pawson

A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be…

— Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

“Don't be fooled by the many books on complexity or by the many complex and arcane algorithms you find in this book…

— James Nicholas Gray

Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification,…

— Hans Wegner

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever…

— Thucydides

I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay…

— Roberto Cavalli

When we apply simplicity to our own lives, when we strip away the unnecessary, the extraneous from ourselves, we become more truly…

— Jennifer Kavanagh

If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may…

— Lawrence Bossidy

I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we…

— Biz Stone

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company,…

— Walter Isaacson

What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its…

— Paul Dirac

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in…

— M. Scott Peck

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves…

— Anonymous

“It’s tough to come up with an exact definition of a minimalist as there are bound to be elements that we’ll end…

— Fumio Sasaki

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must…

— Henry David Thoreau

“You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one is suffering on purpose.…

— Donna Goddard

“1.17 THE WORLDLY WAYS The world, the din, the time, the kin, In our days are a sin, Love’s condemned and not…

— Munindra (Munnan) Misra