Simplicity Quotes

Nothing is more simple than greatness, indeed, to be simple is to be great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
- Henry David Thoreau

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
- Willard Gibbs

Simplicity is the glory of expression.
- Walt Whitman

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

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
- Thomas More

The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
- Prof Ludwig Wittgenstein

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
- Luc De Clapiers

Simplicity is an acquired taste Mankind left free instinctively complicates life
- Katherine F Gerould

The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.
- John V. Cheney