My Top 10 Quotes on Simplicity

I’ve been increasingly interested in the idea of simplicity, for when you boil down the essence of life to its simplest form, its true beauty emerges. Nothing more, nothing less - just enough. This is a wonderful reality to experience, and these quotes have helped me digest this idea. Here are a few of my favorite quotes on Simplicity.

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

- Frédéric Chopin

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“simplicity is the glory of expression.”

- Walt Whitman

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

- Confucius

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

- Plato

“Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.”

- Epictetus

“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”

- Edwin Way Teale

“It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.”

- William of Occam