SIMPLICITY QUOTES IV

quotations about simplicity

The greatest things are those which gain the most by being said most simply, since thus they show themselves for what they are: you do not throw over them the veil, however transparent, of beautiful discourse, nor that shadow so fatal to truth, called the writer's vanity.

CHARLES WAGNER

The Simple Life


Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

COCO CHANEL

interview, Harper's Bazaar, 1923

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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

GEORGE MEREDITH

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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Native simplicity has an influence on the mind, that art or knowledge of the world can never boast.

THOMAS INGMETHORPE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Live with simplicity, if you would live well; bread with hunger makes a feast.

EPICURUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Simplicity is often the cloak of evil as well as the robe of virtue.

LEWIS MORRIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Simplifiers ensure that simplicity is always a goal, a benchmark and a means to arrive at success, leaving us with an actionable lesson -- if you want to innovate, simplify is the new disrupt.

MARGARET MOLLOY

"Five untold approaches to innovation", The Drum, August 24, 2017


Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.

RICHARD FEYNMAN

The Character of Physical Law

Tags: Richard Feynman


Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

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out
of the night comes
a timeless thing
calm
in simplicity
soft
a seductive voice
meant for the human ear
down
down
down
i'm gonna take you
down

DANZIG

"When the Dying Calls"


It always amazes me how the most simple things are the ones to make us the happiest.

GAL GADOT

Instagram post, June 17, 2017


He alone is a man who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simplicity and modest courage.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man

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Without [simplicity] no human performance can arrive at perfection.

JONATHAN SWIFT

The works of Jonathan Swift

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In stillness and simplicity
In the silence of the heart I see
The mystery of eternity
Who lives in side of me.

MICHAEL CARD

"In Stillness and Simplicity"


Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Literary Ethics

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Simplicity and purity are the two wings with which man soars above earth and all temporary nature.

THOMAS À KEMPIS

The Imitation of Christ

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I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

letter to Mr. B., March 27, 1848

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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

ISAAC BARROW

"Upright Walking Sure Walking", Eighteen Sermons on Various Subjects


God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

FRANÇOIS FÉNELON

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


True simplicity regards God alone; it has its eye fixed upon Him, and is not drawn toward self; and it is as pleased to say humble as great things.

MADAME GUYON

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers