This document contains quotes from famous figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Henry David Thoreau, and Albert Einstein about the value and importance of simplicity. The quotes discuss simplicity as the ultimate sophistication, avoiding unnecessary details to simplify one's life, and how simplicity emerges from playing many notes in art. Overall, the document collects wisdom about appreciating simplicity from various influential individuals.

1. The Art of Simplicity
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2. “Simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication.”
― Leonardo daVinci
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3. “Our life is frittered away by
detail. Simplify, simplify.”
― Henry David Thoreau
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4. “I am not a genius, I am just
curious. I ask many questions.
and when the answer is simple,
then God is answering.”
― Albert Einstein
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5. “The greatest truths are the
simplest things in the world,
simple as your own existence.”
― SwamiVivekananda
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6. I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest
treasures.
― Lao Tzu
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7. 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.
― Frederic Chopin
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8. Simplicity is natures first
step, and the last of art.
― Philip James Bailey
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9. There is no greatness where
there is no simplicity,
goodness and truth.
― Leo Tolstoy
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10. The art of art, the glory of
expression and the sunshine of
the light of letters, is simplicity.
― Walt Whitman
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