„Truth is simple. Very simple – so simple that a child can understand it. In fact, so simple that only a child can understand it. Unless you become a child again you will not be able to understand it.“
Osho4
indischer Philosoph und Begründer der Neo-Sannyas-Bewegung 1931 - 1990Ähnliche Zitate
„If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.“
— David Zindell, buch Neverness
Lyall Watson
Neverness (1988)
— Ray Comfort New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist 1949
AronRa vs Ray Comfort (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants
„If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.“
— Ian Stewart British mathematician and science fiction author 1945
Quelle: The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
— Ted Nelson American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist; coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" 1937
Ted Nelson motto http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=6681
— Michael Kurland, buch The Unicorn Girl
Quelle: The Unicorn Girl (1969), Chapter 8 (p. 117)
— Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot French landscape painter and printmaker in etching 1796 - 1875
Quote from Corot's 'Notebooks', ca. 1856, as quoted in Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 241
1850s
„.. buried soberly, as simple as a child of the people, as I am.“
— Johannes Warnardus Bilders painter from the Northern Netherlands 1811 - 1890
version in original Dutch (citaat van Johannes Warnardus Bilders, in Nederlands): ..eenvoudig begraven, zoo eenvoudig als een kind uit het volk, zooals ik ben.
Quelle: 1880's, Johannes Warnardus Bilders' (1887/1900), p. 100
— George Frideric Handel German, later British Baroque composer 1685 - 1759
Samuel Butler Notebooks (2004) p. 153.
Criticism
— Madeleine L'Engle, buch A Wrinkle in Time
Quelle: A Wrinkle in Time
— Paulo Coelho, buch Der Alchimist
This has sometimes been paraphrased: "The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
Quelle: The Alchemist (1988), p. 15.
„UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.“
— Dennis M. Ritchie American computer scientist 1941 - 2011
quote.com/quotes/authors/d/dennis_ritchie.html, Brainy Quote.com http://www.brainy
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian writer 1830 - 1916
Geduld mit der Streitsucht der Einfältigen! Es ist nicht leicht zu begreifen, dass man nicht begreift.
Quelle: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 20.
— Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
Act II
A Man for All Seasons (1960)
„I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.“
— Paulo Coelho, buch Like the Flowing River
Quelle: Like the Flowing River
— Aron Ra Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast 1962
Radio Paul's Radio Rants (September 17th, 2012)
