Simplicity Quotes · Page 45

I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

— Meister Eckhart

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

— G-Eazy

“The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.

— Alex Honnold

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Simplicity, patience and forgiveness are three virtues which makes one able to keep good attitude.

— Anil Sinha

“for me, reading is remembering. the simplicity of knowing what's coming isn't so simple after all.”

— Cat Patrick

As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so…

— Jennifer Kavanagh

Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to…

— Patty Schemel

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity…

— Fernando J. Corbato

People I admire have two qualities: a kind of simplicity, and generosity of spirit. It seems to me that the more impressive…

— Mary Robinson

“The past and the future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple. And the simplicity is the sensation of it being…

— David Levithan

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying…

— Tim Burton

I've never met him, but I love the simplicity with which Warren Buffett describes good and bad businesses and how he makes…

— Steve Easterbrook

“Praise be to God I’m not good, And have the natural egotism of flowers And rivers following their bed Preoccupied without knowing…

— Alberto Caeiro

Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even…

— Frederic Bastiat

“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand…

— Gillian Flynn

No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should…

— M. R. DeHaan

I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily…

— Anonymous

“Obviously simplicity isn’t an unalloyed good — existentialism might be more like jumbling everything together into boxes and sorting it out when…

— Adam Kotsko

“In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris…

— Joseph J. Ellis

Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…

— Edward Abbey

But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines,…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's the simple things that matter most in everyone's life...sometimes just knowing that you're really loved makes everything alright.

— Anonymous

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

— Anonymous

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

— Hugh Prather

“The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.”

— Donna Goddard

I'm not a minimalist, not at all. I feel much better, safer even, having a large piece.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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

— Walt Whitman

When you have cleared all of your clutter, you can be of greater service to those around you.

— Michael Kitson

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

— Ezra Pound

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

— Alexander Pope

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

— Pat Conroy

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

— Joseph Monninger

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

— Jake Barton

It's really complicated to make something simple, but very simple to make something something complicated.

— Anonymous

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of…

— Albert Camus

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

— Alan Watts

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer