Simplicity Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old simplicity quotes, simplicity sayings, and simplicity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the decor should belong intimately to the design proper, and that anything foreign to it should be taken away. Paul Jacques Grillo
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan Perlis
Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual. You will find people living simply in large cities, rural areas and everything in between. Linda Breen Pierce
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. Constantin Brancusi
Simplicity is the key to brilliance. Bruce Lee
Simplicity is the nature of great souls. Papa Ramadas
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in. Francis Jourdain
Never use a long word when a short one will do. Louisa May Alcott
I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value. Ela Bhatt
Simplicity is the seal of truth. Proverb
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. Philip James Bailey
There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text. Patrick J. Buchanan
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
Simplicity is a jewel rarely found. Ovid
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy. Richard Steele
There is one show of breeding vulgarity seldom assumes, simplicity. George Macdonald
Simplicity is a captivating grace in woman, as rare as it is attractive. J. De Finod
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself. Francois Fenelon
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle. Edmund Burke
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. Isaac Barrow