Simplicity Quotes

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simplicity is the best sophistication — Leonardo da Vinci
We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives… — Anne Bishop
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked,… — Alain de Botton
Simplicity is a matter of taste — Stephen Hawking
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. — Isaac Newton
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. — George Eliot
If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it… — Jonathan Stroud
The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious… — Louisa May Alcott
So thatâ€™s our approach. Very simple, and weâ€™re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way weâ€™re running the company, the product design,… — Walter Isaacson
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of… — Charles Alexander Eastman
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away… — Mark Twain
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be… — Osamu Dazai
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true. — Steve Jobs
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! — Henry David Thoreau
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by… — Annie Dillard
In the beginning was simplicity. — Richard Dawkins
Bless thy simplicity, Tess — Thomas Hardy
I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally.… — Jewel
Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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