Simplicity Quotes

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Life, Free, Left

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
Hank Stram

Philosophy, Variety, Plus

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
John Woolman

God, Men, Truth

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
Constantin Brancusi

Art, Real, Self

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
Edward Teller

Science, Everything, Understand

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.
Ryan Seacrest

Future, Talk, Crucial

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.
Rem Koolhaas

Return, Toward, Compulsion

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman

Poverty, American, White

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
Edvard Munch

Nothing, Emptiness, Picture

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.
Jon Landau

Life, Person, Thought

I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.
Matthew Rhys

Love, Home, Technology

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Hope, Sex, Wish

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Thomas More

Home, Soul, Might

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
Rudolf Arnheim

Change, Beautiful, Cannot

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
William Kingdon Clifford

Mind, Escape, Duty

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
William Falconer

Nature, Hope, Fear

I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
Felicity Jones

Time, Small, Shopping

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
Edward Sapir

Him, Far, Illusion

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
Edward Sapir

Character, German, Misleading

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir

Same, Word, English

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.
Edward Sapir

Almost, English, National

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
Feist

Music, Positive, Joy

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
John Millington Synge

Lives, While, Walk

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
Felix Adler

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway

Great, God, Power

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble

Good, Great, Breeding

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
James F. Cooper

American, Ambition, Language

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis

Complexity, Follows, Precede

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
Donald Norman

Life, Compromise, Excellent

I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Norm MacDonald

Love, Politics, Sports

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