Paulo Coelho Quotes

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.