Simplicity Quotes, Sayings about being simple
Many things are lost for want of asking.
- English proverb
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
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
- Alfred Whitehead
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
- Walt Whitman
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
- Jessie Sampter
Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
- Proverb
The most complex things are the simplest.
- Agni Celeste
Affected simplicity is refined imposture.
- La Rochefoucauld
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo DaVinci
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning
A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
- Eugene Delacroix
Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.
- Jon Franklin
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
- Socrates
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
- Chinese Proverb
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.
- John Morley
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
- Mahlon Hoagland
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
- Anonymous
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
- Esther
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
- Lao tzu
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
- Katherine F. Gerould
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
- Thomas a Kempis
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
- Richard Halloway
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
- Aristotle
The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
- Thomas More
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


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