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Quotes about Simplicity — 17 Timeless Lines

17 quotes about simplicity, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.

All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.

1. 2

   Simple is best

   — Proverb

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2. 4

   Sincerity needs no decoration

   — Proverb

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3. 8

   Complexity is where we get lost

   — Traditional

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4. 16

   Too simple to trust? That's the truth

   — Proverb

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5. 32

   Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

   — Traditional

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6. 64

   Return to simplicity

   — Laozi

   Original · Classical Chinese復歸於樸

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7. 128

   Less is more

   — Traditional

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8. 256

   Frugality nurtures virtue

   — Zhuge Liang

   Original · Classical Chinese夫君子之行，靜以修身，儉以養德。

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9. 512

   The perfect is the enemy of the good

   — Voltaire

   Original · FrenchLe mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

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10. 1024

    Simplify, simplify, simplify

    — Thoreau

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11. 2048👑 Crown quote

    Great skill appears clumsy

    — Laozi

    Original · Classical Chinese大巧若拙

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12. Levels 4096–131072 continue in the app.
13. 4096

    Brevity is the sister of talent

    — Chekhov

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14. 8192

    He who knows contentment suffers no disgrace

    — Laozi

    Original · Classical Chinese知足不辱

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15. 16384

    Rich by what he can leave alone

    — Thoreau

    Original · EnglishA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone

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16. 32768

    It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor

    — Seneca

    Original · LatinNon qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.

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17. 65536

    The old pond — a frog leaps in, the sound of water

    — Bashō

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18. 131072

    The Way never acts, yet nothing is left undone

    — Laozi

    Original · Classical Chinese道常無為而無不為

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