Simplicity quotations

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◆ I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Living simply makes loving simple.

- Bell Hooks99

◆ It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

- David Levithan99

◆ Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

- Isaac Newton99

◆ Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

- Lin Yutang99

◆ Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

- John Maeda99

◆ If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

- Ludwig Boltzmann99

◆ Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

- Isaac Newton99

◆ A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that's poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

- Victoria Moran99

◆ Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ One should use common words to say uncommon things

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

- Derek Landy99

◆ What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

- Pete Seeger99