S Quotes
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“Simplicity has the strongest power to possess, obsess and transgress.”
“Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.”
Source: Pharaoh
“Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.”
“Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons”
Source: Reflections from the North Country
“Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.”
Source: Reflections from the North Country
“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.”
“Simplicity in purpose is the key to finding profound happiness amidst life’s complexities.”
Source: Death: Light of Life and the Shadow of Death
“Simplicity involves coming to the realization that over ninety percent of what consumes our time is doing nothing more than consuming our time.”
“Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.”
Source: Killosophy
“Simplicity is a delicate imposition.”
“Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.”
“Simplicity is a gift you give to yourself.”
Source: ARE YOU READY? A GUIDE TO BE THE BEST VERSION OF YOU: A Self-Help Book for Becoming Your Best Self
“Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.”
Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
“Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.”
“Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'”
“Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.”
“Simplicity is a matter of taste”
“Simplicity is a most complex form”
“Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.”
Source: Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order
“Simplicity is a state of mind.”
Source: The Simple Life
“Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.”
“simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.”
Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated
“Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.”
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
“Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.”
“Simplicity is always a virtue.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity”
“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.”
“Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.”
Source: John Climacus (CWS)
“Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.”
Source: The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“Simplicity is, as simple as you make it.”
“Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.”
“Simplicity is complexity resolved”
“Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.”
“Simplicity is freedom.”
“Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.”
“Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.”
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner
“Simplicity is my fashion,
Moderation is my trend.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Simplicity is my fashion,
Moderation is my trend.
There are creases on my shirt,
Because my heart is without bent.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?”
“Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.”
“Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.”
“Simplicity is not a simple thing.”
“Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.”
“Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.”