(253 quotes found)
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.”
Henry David Thoreau
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
“Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.”
Anna Branch
“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy”
Richard Halloway
“For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“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.”
Henry James
“The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.”
Bruce Lee
“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”
Albert Einstein
“We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown [he or she] left behind.”
Clementine Paddleford
“The great seal of truth is simplicity.”
Herman Boerhaave
