Quotes about Simplicity
When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.
— Samuel Johnson
I was not born for courts or great affairs;I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.Pope.
— Samuel Johnson
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
— John Adams
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
— Henry David Thoreau
They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.
— Publilius Syrus
Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life.
— Bob Goff
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill
The great artist is the simplifier.
— Vincent Van Gogh
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
— Samuel Johnson
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
— Heinrich Heine
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
— Karl Barth
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
— AA Milne