Simplicity Quotes, Sayings about being simple

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Many things are lost for want of asking.
- English proverb

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city.
- Charles Caleb Colton

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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
- Alfred Whitehead

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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
- Walt Whitman

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
- Jessie Sampter

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Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
- Proverb

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The most complex things are the simplest.
- Agni Celeste

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Affected simplicity is refined imposture.
- La Rochefoucauld

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo DaVinci

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning

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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
- Eugene Delacroix

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Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.
- Jon Franklin

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The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
- Socrates

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A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
- Chinese Proverb

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Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.
- John Morley

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Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
- Mahlon Hoagland

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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
- Anonymous

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
- Esther

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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
- Lao tzu

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
- Albert Einstein

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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
- Katherine F. Gerould

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

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When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu

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Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
- Thomas a Kempis

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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
- Richard Halloway

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The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
- Aristotle

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

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Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu