“Simplicity is the glory of
expression.”
Walt Whitman
“Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects
not the pomp of superfluous causes.”
Isaac Newton
“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but
follows it.”
Alan Perlis
“Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than
more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less
so I can have more.”
John Kabat-Zinn
“Simplicity is a state of
mind.”
Charles Wagner
“Simplicity in character, in manners, in
style; In all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Simplicity and naturalness are the truest
marks of distinction.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Nothing is true, but that which is
simple.”
Johann Wolfgang
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the
so-called comforts of life,
are not only indispensable, but positive
hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
With respect to luxuries and comforts, the
wisest have even lived a more simple and meager life than the
poor.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Life is really simple, but we insist on
making it complicated.”
Confucius
“In character, in manner, in style, in all
things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
Henry Wadsworth
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and
good rhythm depend on simplicity.”
Plato
“Everything is both simpler than we can
imagine, and more complicated that we can conceive.”
Goethe
“I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion,
These three are your greatest
treasures.”
Lao Tsu
