Paulo Coelho Quotes

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.

You could say that as I've gotten more mature, I've acquired more manure.

Facts are often complicated.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

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

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things...adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.