SIMPLICITY QUOTES II
quotations about simplicity
The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN
preface, Leaves of Grass
In times of great complexity, simplicity is compelling.
DIPANJAN CHATERJEE
"Brand 2020: A Manifesto In Three Acts -- Act II. Soul-Searching", Forbes, August 23, 2017
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free.
JOSEPH BRACKETT
Simple Gifts
The spirit of simplicity is not an inherited gift, but the result of a laborious conquest.
CHARLES WAGNER
The Simple Life
Those simple things are ones we usually take for granted, but when you are mindful to the love and beauty that actually surrounds you, just waiting to be acknowledged, you will see dozens of things to be happy about that are right in front of you.
MARTHA BODYFELT
MARTHA BODYFELT, PsychCentral, May 2, 2017
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Personal Merit", Les Caractères
Get together, work it out,
Simplicity is what it's about
DONOVAN
"Get Thy Bearings"
Where once was childlike simplicity
Now only remnants of blind ideals
This quality of innocence
Once tarnished, is forever lost
It's lost
ANACRUSIS
"Tools of Separation"
Although variety's the spice of life
A steady rhythm is the source
Simplicity's the crucial thing
Systemically of course
BRIAN ENO
"Seven Deadly Finns"
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
letter to Mr. Walsh, July 2, 1706
Simplicity is the character of the spring of life.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
The only simplicity that matters is the simplicity of the heart. If that be gone, it can be brought back by no turnips or cellular clothing; but only by tears and terror and the fires that are not quenched.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Heretics
The problem with simplicity is that unless you absolutely nail the execution, the end result can feel lackluster.
SAM RUTHERFORD
"The Essential Phone Is Too Expensive to Have a Camera This Bad", Gizmodo, August 25, 2017
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
HANS HOFFMAN
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
JACK KEROUAC
The Dharma Bums
If thou hadst simplicity and purity thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger.
THOMAS À KEMPIS
The Imitation of Christ
That process of simplicity emerging from complexity that emerges from simplicity is at least as magical as anything in quantum physics.
CHAD ORZEL
"Quantum Physics Isn't Magic, But Thermodynamics Seems That Way", Forbes, August 27, 2017
I despair of ever describing simplicity in any worthy fashion. All the strength of the world and all its beauty, all true joy, everything that consoles, that feeds hope, or throws a ray of light along our dark paths, everything that makes us see across our poor lives a splendid goal and a boundless future, comes to us from people of simplicity.
CHARLES WAGNER
The Simple Life
The more I see of the world, the more I am satisfied that simplicity is inseparably the companion of true greatness; I never yet knew a true great man, a man who overtopped his fellow-man, who did not possess a certain playful, almost infantile simplicity.
THOMAS GALE
attributed, Day's Collacon