Simplicity

 

A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.

– Muriel Humphrey

 

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

– Leonardo da Vinci

 

To be simple is to be great.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

– Diana Cooper

 

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

– Kahlil Gibran

 

Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.

– Anatole France

 

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

– W. Somerset Maugham

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

– Henry David Thoreau

 

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

– Dame Rebecca West

 

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

– G. K. Chesterton

 

Everything should be made as simple as possible … but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

 

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

 

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

– Sir Joshua Reynolds