Simplicity Quotes

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

"If you have to buy stuff to store your stuff, you might have too much stuff."

"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."

"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."

"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Minimalism is a tool that lets us focus on what's really important so we can find happiness."

"The more you know, the less you need."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."

"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify."

"Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it's about how to get the right things done."

"The easiest way to get what you want is to want less."

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"The most effective way to live is to simplify your habits and focus on the systems that matter."

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius to move in the opposite direction."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, who is poor."

"The more things we desire, the more we have to work for them, and the less time we have for what matters."

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."

"The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't."

"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

"Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect."

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful."

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."

"Live simply so that others may simply live."

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."