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Simplicity Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn’t contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “She found it sinful and expensive to have sugar in her tea, although she herself never spent a penny on anything.”

Ivan Turgenev

3. “I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.”

Camille Paglia

4. “Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism – clarity, order, proportion, balance – is in Egypt.”

Camille Paglia

5. “Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.”

Camille Paglia

6. “No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.”

J.P. Morgan

7. “A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”

John D. Rockefeller

8. “I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.”

John D. Rockefeller

9. “The secret of happiness is renunciation.”

Andrew Carnegie

10. “Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.”

Guy Kawasaki

11. “If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.”

Guy Kawasaki

12. “Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering.”

Guy Kawasaki

13. “If you can’t describe your business model in ten words or fewer, you don’t have a business model.”

Guy Kawasaki

14. “I don’t “need” the rush to be happy. I’d be perfectly happy without the attention and action.”

Guy Kawasaki

15. “We don’t have to fix anything.”

Mitch Hedberg

16. “I had a box of Ritz crackers, and on the back of the box, they had all these suggestions for what to put on top of the Ritz. Try it with cheese. Try it with peanut butter. Come on, man, they’re crackers, that’s why I got them. I like crackers! I didn’t buy them because they’re little edible plates!”

Mitch Hedberg

17. “The next time I move I hope I get a real easy phone number, something like 2222222. People will ask, “Mitch, how do I get a hold of you?” I’ll say, “Just press two for a while, when I answer, you’ll know that you’ve pressed two enough.””

Mitch Hedberg

18. “Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.”

Charles Lamb

19. “Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.”

Charles Lamb

20. “Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.”

Charles Lamb

21. “Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!”

Charles Lamb

22. “When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.”

Charles Lamb

23. “A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.”

Charles Lamb

24. “Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.”

Charles Lamb

25. “All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.”

Margaret Fuller

26. “All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.”

Margaret Fuller

27. “I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.”

Steven Wright

28. “At one point he decided enough was enough.”

Steven Wright

29. “I washed mud off of mud.”

Steven Wright

30. “I took a baby shower.”

Steven Wright

31. “He has the most who is content with the least.”

Ankur Warikoo

32. “We do not believe most things that we should believe in, simply because they are "too simple".”

Ankur Warikoo

33. “Most answers in life are simple. Accepting them is hard!”

Ankur Warikoo

34. “We think that if we simplify things, we will lose our importance.”

Ankur Warikoo

35. “Do it. Try it. Fix it.”

Sam Walton

36. “There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I’ll sell you the other three for a dollar.”

Sam Walton

37. “What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?”

Sam Walton

38. “All that hullabaloo about somebody’s net worth is just stupid, and it’s made my life a lot more complex and difficult.”

Sam Walton

39. “It’s just paper – all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.”

Sam Walton

40. “I remember one time I didn’t want to spend any money on motels so we all slept in sleeping bags on the floor of one of our guy’s house. His furniture hadn’t gotten there yet.”

Sam Walton

41. “You just have to have a simple faith.”

Jimmy Carter

42. “Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.”

Jimmy Carter

43. “Certain ideas overwhelm us by their simplicity.”

V.S. Naipaul

44. “So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.”

Ramakrishna

45. “Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.”

Ramakrishna

46. “Great men have the nature of a child.”

Ramakrishna

47. “Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

48. “Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

49. “There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

50. “Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

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