Erez Lieberman Aiden Quotes

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

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

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

The only stupidities that are not easily solved are those created by very intelligent men.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

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.