Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

William James

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

Rob Bell

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Wayne Dyer

You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.

William Strunk, Jr.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

Nelson Goodman

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

Linus Torvalds

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

Linda McCartney

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Robert Redford

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

Sam Altman

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

Nicholas Sparks

grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

Geena Davis

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

Livy

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

James Patterson

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

Kurt Vonnegut

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

Carl Andre

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

Elizabeth Kostova

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.