All religions are incorporated in the principle of Truth, Simplicity and Love.
Simplicity Quotes
Albert Einstein heads a small list, followed by Steve Maraboli, François Fénelon and others with two entries each. The sourced lines include Edsger Dijkstra’s from 1975, that simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability, and Goldsmith’s from The Deserted Village (1770), about one native charm being dearer than all the gloss of art.
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time” is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed. The notes give the French original, “Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte,” which is Pascal’s, from the Provincial Letters. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” is credited to Leonardo da Vinci and disputed.
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.
Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool.
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.