Top 78 Quotes About Simple Answers
#1. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
D.J. MacHale
#2. Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.
Scott Adams
#3. Simple questions
and simple answers
were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.
Alexander McCall Smith
#4. The Bible is not a set of instructions that can give us simple answers," wrote Webber, "nor a text with which to prove points ... . The guidance the Bible gives was provided for a society very different from ours ... and any set of words is open to different interpretations.
Sara Miles
#5. We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.
Tariq Ramadan
#6. When we are young," Jasnah said, "we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.
Brandon Sanderson
#7. They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Ronald Reagan
#9. Difficult questions, simple answers. What is a community?
It is the sum total of our choices.
Fredrik Backman
#10. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald Reagan
#11. As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.
Neil Gaiman
#12. There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.
Ronald Reagan
#14. Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
Michael Haneke
#15. it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers.
Brandon Sanderson
#16. Because some information is better than no information. Life does not give you big, simple answers, Caitlyn. It demands patience, focus, and an open, intelligent mind to gather the pieces of a puzzle and fit them together into a coherent whole. Nothing worth knowing is ever easily learned.
Lisa Cach
#17. Such simple questions as How many feet are in a mile? or What's the number of square feet in an acre? produce the not-so-simple answers of 5,280 and 43,560.
John Bemelmans Marciano
#18. How do people make the judgments and how do they assign decision weights? We start from two simple answers, then qualify them. Here are the oversimplified answers: People overestimate the probabilities of unlikely events. People overweight unlikely events in their decisions.
Daniel Kahneman
#19. I am a simple man and I want simple answers.
Howard Aiken
#20. Too many congregations look to their pastors for simple answers to problems that their pastors see as anything but simple. And too many pastors don't trust their congregations enough to say, "It's not that simple from my point of view and here's why.
Ken Wilson
#21. We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers
Jacque Fresco
#22. She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers
or any answer at all?
Jim Butcher
#23. We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
Alfred North Whitehead
#24. 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
#25. There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#26. The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy
David Baldacci
#27. For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning.
Philip Short
#29. What we do as a society is seek simple answers.
Dean Koontz
#30. Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.
Dr. Seuss
#31. Hings are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
Muhammad Yunus
#32. Going Home
Take a step towards home.
It is always the most simple
and
direct path.
Let the questions fall away.
The answers don't matter.
Just carry what you are given
and start walking.
Shelley Richardson
#33. Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.
Henry Jenner
#34. Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
Jacob Bronowski
#35. It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
Donald Miller
#36. Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.
Jakob Nielsen
#37. There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.
Carrie Newcomer
#38. Mother Teresa, when asked about her holiness or saintliness, always answers in a matter-of-fact way that holiness is a necessity of life--and explains that it is not the luxury of a few, such as those who take the course of religious life, but is "a simple duty of all. Holiness is for everyone.
Lucinda Vardey
#39. There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.
Douglas Adams
#40. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.
Adam P. Knave
#42. Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I've found the answer in the simple file box.
Twyla Tharp
#43. Perhaps there is a simple answer
not an easy answer
but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
Ronald Reagan
#44. NO" is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer someone's request with a simple No.
Sharon E. Rainey
#45. In my world, there are no simple questions, and precious few answers of any kind. If you are going to write about me, you must resign yourself to that.
John Banville
#46. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Criss Jami
#47. Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.
Elmer Seward
#48. Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?
Lawrence Lessig
#49. Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
Sydney J. Harris
#50. If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.
J. L. Mackie
#51. God's reply to Job makes one simple point: while human beings may have questions about how the Lord rules His world, they have no justification for demanding answers from Him. He is the Creator, but we are the creatures.
Anonymous
#52. If you have answers to the "whys", it will direct you to the "hows". As simple as that!
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.
William S. Burroughs
#54. I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.
Bill Duke
#55. My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
John Lennon
#56. During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.
Richard Tangye
#57. How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
Anne Lamott
#58. The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
Lou Holtz
#59. The paradox of questioning is that simple questions can lead to detailed, on-target answers, but complicated questions get you single-word answers from a subject who doesn't want to talk, and unrestrained answers from a person who does.
James Pyle
#60. Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, then the darkness stole away any signs of hope.
Gail Tsukiyama
#61. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss
#62. We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.
Shane Koyczan
#63. Sometimes the question is complicated and the answers simple." - DR. SEUSS
James Lilliefors
#64. How many times have answers been so simple and yet someone is determined to take the path of thorns instead of roses?" "It's not earned." "That's a very human thing to say." "An inclination I can't help." "It's not about things that are earned, but just things as they are.
Roshani Chokshi
#65. Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
Bear Grylls
#66. To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong ...
H.L. Mencken
#67. How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?
John Diamond
#68. If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.
David Papineau
#69. The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need - carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.
Steve Krug
#70. The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The word comes from the same root as eureka.
Daniel Kahneman
#71. Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?
W. Edwards Deming
#72. We're in the explanation business, and if the answers to the questions we explore got too simple, we'd be out of work.
Michael Pollan
#73. I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.
Spencer Johnson
#74. The answer is simple; if you want something very badly, you can achieve it.
Margo Jones
#75. If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What's the worst thing that could happen as a result of this? Will this matter in five years? Your answers should put a stop to cataclysmic thinking.
Travis Bradberry
#76. Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
Mabel Iam
#77. In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.
James Frey
#78. Nothing can create more dramatic changes than simple and pure love and compassion. When people pray, their prayers are listened, but the answers manifest in forms that their selfishness blinds them to see.
Robin Sacredfire
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