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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

Great culture is often betokened by great simplicity.

Dorothee DeLuzy

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Plato

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the glory of expression

Walt Whitman

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.

Papa Ramadas

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

The Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity

Albert Einstein

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Sam Abell

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

Henry David Thoreau

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Dalai Lama

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Alan Watts

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Alexander Pope

Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

Mahlon Hoagland

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Aristotle

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

Leo Tolstoy

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