Simplicity Quotes

“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”

“There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.”

“What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.”

“He who devotes himself to learning seeks from day to day to increase his knowledge; he who devotes himself to the Tao seeks from day to day to diminish his doing.”

“The five colours make man's eyes blind; the five notes make his ears deaf.”

“Show simplicity, hold to the unadorned, lessen selfishness and have few desires.”

“Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”

“A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

“A child has beaten me in plainness of living.”

“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”

“I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.”