Top 58 Complex Simplicity Quotes
#1. If the truth should be complex and somewhat disillusioning, it would still not be a merit to substitute for it some more dramatic and comforting simplicity.
Clarence Irving Lewis
#2. Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".
Richard O. Moore
#3. The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
B.C. Forbes
#4. Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
Ursus Wehrli
#5. Reality is infinitely complex, yet it is designed to experience in simplicity.
Guy Lozier
#6. If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
#7. When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.
I. J. Good
#8. The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.
Thomas Merton
#9. Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.
Donald Curtis
#10. As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#12. We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use and renewable energy choices are all we need to tackle both energy independence and climate change,
Edward Mazria
#13. I was wondering aimlessly; too many road were open ... too many resolves, too complex, allowed of being taken. I took ... by far the simplest of them all.
Edmond Rostand
#14. The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.
Mary Pickford
#15. Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.
Paulo Coelho
#17. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Criss Jami
#18. Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear ... then his message was easily understood.
Brandon Andress
#19. Human inventions march from the
complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
Alexandre Dumas
#20. Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
Oscar Wilde
#21. Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.
John Ralston Saul
#22. Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity.
Vikrmn
#23. Don't be fooled by the many books on complexity or by the many complex and arcane algorithms you find in this book or elsewhere. Although there are no textbooks on simplicity, simple systems work and complex don't.
Jim Gray
#24. Simple foods connect with your body's needs in complex ways.
Bryant McGill
#25. Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
Alan Kay
#26. Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'
Joyce Meyer
#27. Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.
Pete Seeger
#28. When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simplicity; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
#30. The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.
James Kirk
#31. Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.
B. J. Fogg
#32. The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.
Ayn Rand
#34. The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
Anton Chekhov
#35. Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.
Michael Hersch
#36. Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.
Christoph Niemann
#37. Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
Anna Deavere Smith
#38. Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#39. A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#40. Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.
Franz Grillparzer
#41. I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
John Maeda
#42. The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.
Jorge Luis Borges
#43. That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998]
Steve Jobs
#44. Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.
Yuri Lotman
#45. The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex - not that which never has divined it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#48. The more we understand the simplicity of life, the less complex we shall live.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.
Victor J. Stenger
#50. Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.
Bruce Hood
#51. I know that scenario... that "You are going to die"... bullshit and bullshit I was next to you what did I fucking get?
- Simple answers of so complex questions... So simple questions and so complex answers... I never mean that and I never wanted that to happen.
Deyth Banger
#52. The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.
Melvin Schwartz
#53. Mastery ... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.
Yvon Chouinard
#54. The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.
Steve McConnell
#55. Supernatural simplicity viewed and perceived with complexity, naturally; many suffer from an outside-in misunderstanding.
T.F. Hodge
#56. People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
Thomas Sowell
#58. Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.
Tarun J. Tejpal
