Quotes about Simplicity
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
— Henry David Thoreau
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
— Pope John Paul II
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
— Herman Melville
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
— Cormac McCarthy
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
— GK Chesterton
World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
— Marcus Aurelius
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
— Martin Luther
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
— Phillips Brooks
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?
— Reinhold Niebuhr