quotations about simplicity
Simplicity is sometimes sexier in its naked honesty. But simplicity isn't simple. It demands great ingredients and on-point technique.
MIA STAINSBY
"Oddfish goes for simple and delicious", The Province, August 30, 2017
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN
The Magic Mountain
Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.
WARD CUNNINGHAM
"The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work", Artima, January 19, 2004
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
WILLIAM GOLDING
Lord of the Flies
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
GEORGE MEREDITH
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
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.
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
attributed, Chopin: An Introduction to His Piano Works
Without [simplicity] no human performance can arrive at perfection.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The works of Jonathan Swift
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Literary Ethics
Therefore I say once more, cast your eyes upon paper, and ready only such letters as I write, which convey no darts, no flames, but proceed from innocence of soul, and simplicity of heart.
ALEXANDER POPE
letter to Mrs. ***, The Works of Alexander Pope
For it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
AMELIA E. BARR
All the Days of My Life
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
Simplicity is often the cloak of evil as well as the robe of virtue.
LEWIS MORRIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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"
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
Live with simplicity, if you would live well; bread with hunger makes a feast.
EPICURUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Simplicity and purity are the two wings with which man soars above earth and all temporary nature.
THOMAS À KEMPIS
The Imitation of Christ
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
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