Simplicity quotes

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” – William James

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” – Martin H. Fischer

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” – Steve Jobs

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” – Leo Tolstoy

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.” – Swedish proverb

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand. We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

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

“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault

“Simplicity is the essence of happiness.” – Cedric Bledsoe

“The way to happy – keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry, live simply, expect little, give much.” – Carol Borges

“He who knows he has enough is rich.” – Lao Tzu