Quotes on Simplicity

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

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.