best quotations about
Simplicity |
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Quotations
 | I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 10 likes |
 | Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 8 likes |
 | When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 6 likes |
 | You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 5 likes |
 | How difficult it is to be simple! — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
| Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 4 likes |
 | Less is more. — Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969, German architect (First appeared in a Robert Browning poem but Van der Rohe popularized it) 3 likes |
 | Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 3 likes |
 | How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart. — William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet 3 likes |
 | It is not at all simple to understand the simple. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 2 likes |
 | Seek simplicity, and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 2 likes |
 | That’s been one of my mantras: focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 2 likes |
 | Simplicity has always been the hallmark of truth. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist 2 likes |
 | When it comes to happiness, things are like a clock: the simpler the mechanism, the less often it breaks. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes |
 | Modesty is sometimes hypocritical, and simplicity never is. — Jean d’ Alembert, 1717-1783, French physicist & philosopher |
 | Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. |
 | The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated. |
 | It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. |
 | Everything in war is very simple, but even the simplest is very difficult. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
 | An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. |
Ancient Greek
 | The words of the truth are simple. Απλά γαρ εστι της αληθείας έπη. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Award of the Arms 13 likes |
 | The words of truth are simple by nature. Απλούς ο μύθος της αληθείας έφυ. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Phoenician women 6 likes |
 | Be not unwilling in what you do, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out your thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. Μήτε ακούσιος ενέργει μήτε ακοινώνητος μήτε ανεξέταστος μήτε ανθελκόμενος. Μήτε κομψεία την διάνοιάν σου καλλωπιζέτω, μήτε πολυρρήμων μήτε πολυπράγμων έσο. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations III, 5 3 likes |
