Simplicity Quotes

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu

Patience, Greatest, Compassion

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

Work, Simple, End

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee

True, Nothing, Special

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu

Few, Desires, Embrace

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Paulo Coelho

Life, Reality, Lost

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

Truth, Greatness, Goodness

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

Art, Sunshine, Light

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Character, Style, Excellence

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell

Someone, Special, Moment

Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Walt Whitman

Expression, Glory

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Hope, Sex, Wish

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Character, Style, Excellence

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl

Progress, Ability, Complicate

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Work, Art, True

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim

Great, Freedom, Care

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Mark Hyman

Life, Beauty, Wrong

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover

Great, May, Fish

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope

Far, Above, Wit

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

Child, Manners, Gentle

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Sense, Comfort, Superior

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin

Art, After, Played

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Feelings, Cannot

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand

Experience, Difficult, Last

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie

Simple, Understand, Genius

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
Laura Nyro

Beautiful, Become, Stands

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Images, Appealing

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.
Demetri Martin

Trying, Idea, Seem

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Culture, Extreme, Partial

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