Quotations about

Simplicity

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

—Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

—Jessie Sampter

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

—Oscar Wilde

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

—Walt Whitman

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

—Henry David Thoreau

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

—Will Rogers

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

—Thor Heyerdahl

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Anything simple always interests me.

—David Hockney

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

—Aziz Ansari in Modern Romance