“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
Source: War and Peace
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“Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.”
Further Records, 1848-1883, vol. 1; entry dated January 20, 1875 (1891).
“Truth has been confused. Simplicity refused.”
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The Poets And The Prophet (2006)

“There is great freedom in simplicity of living.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982), Ch. 2 : My Spiritual Growing Up : My Steps Toward Inner Peace

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
Cited in Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, Rule 9, from a manuscript published in The Religion of Isaac Newton (1974) by Frank E. Manuel, p. 120, as quoted in Socinianism And Arminianism : Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, And Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe (2005) by Martin Mulsow, Jan Rohls, p. 273.
As quoted in God in the Equation : How Einstein Transformed Religion (2002) by Corey S. Powell, p. 29
Variant: Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
“All religions are incorporated in the principle of Truth, Simplicity and Love.”
December 1981
The Teachings of Babaji

Aurea Dicta VI, p. 4.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty”
Conversation with Einstein, as quoted in Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior by Del Thiessen
Context: If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, axioms, etc.—to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are "true," that they reveal a genuine feature of nature... You must have felt this too: The almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.

Source: The Fractalist (2012), Ch. 29, p. 299