Simplicity Quotes

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

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.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

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

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Simplicity is the key.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

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.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.