Simplicity Quotes

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. (Aristotle)
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. View quote
Alan Perlis
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. View quote
Isaac Newton
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. View quote
Thor Heyerdahl
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. View quote
Edward Witten
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. View quote
Fanny Kemble
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. View quote
Henry Adams
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Simplicity is not a simple thing. (Charlie Chaplin)
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. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
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. View quote
Bruce Lee
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. View quote
Alexander Pope
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. View quote
Yves Saint-Laurent
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. View quote
Peace Pilgrim
Seek simplicity, then distrust. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. View quote
Walt Whitman
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
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. View quote
John Woolman
Simplicity makes me happy. View quote
Alicia Keys
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. View quote
Jonathan Ive