Simplicity Quotes

• I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Speak

• There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wealth
  • Simplicity
  • Goodness

• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Simplicity
  • Goodness

• Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Beauty
  • Variety
  • Former

• He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Mistake
  • Fool
  • Easy

• The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Glory
  • Simplicity

• The expression of truth is simplicity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Truth
  • Expression
  • Simplicity

• I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Thinking
  • Worry
  • Rich

• I always go for simplicity.

  

  David Bailey
  • Simplicity

• Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Middle
  • Charming
  • Aliens

• It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.

  

  Charles Alexander Eastman
  • Children
  • Poor
  • Weakness

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

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Spiritual
  • Simplicity
  • Spirituality

• The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Artists
  • Simplicity
  • Round

• Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

  

  William Morris
  • Thinking
  • Water
  • Wall

• Bless thy simplicity, Tess

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Simplicity
  • Bless

• Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Simplicity
  • Clear
  • Complexity

• My brain is very simple. Like when you break everything down. I see things in a simple way. And that simplicity for some reason becomes funny to other people because they don't look at it that way.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • People
  • Simple
  • Reason

• Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

  

  William Morris
  • Men
  • Simple
  • Simplicity

• The systems view is the emerging contemporary view of organized complexity, one step beyond the Newtonian view of organized simplicity, and two steps beyond the classical world views of divinely ordered or imaginatively envisaged complexity.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Steps
  • Complexity
  • Emerging

• Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Simplicity
  • Keys

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