Quotes on Simplicity and The K.I.S.S. Method

“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.” ~ Aristotle

“Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.” ~ Aristotle

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” ~ William James

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” ~ Martin H. Fischer

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” ~ Hans Hofmann

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”~ William Morris

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“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” ~ Steve Jobs

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

“Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.” ~ Swedish proverb

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand. We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu

“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the
middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein

“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tzu

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big
things.” ~ Robert Brault

“Simplicity is the essence of happiness.” ~ Cedric Bledsoe

“The way to happy – keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry, live
simply, expect little, give much.” ~ Carol Borges

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” ~ Lao Tzu

“He who is contented is rich.” ~ Lao Tzu