People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
Politics is applesauce.
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.
Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
I am a simple creature.
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
My problems with 'Bonanza' were problems of communication. What we discussed would be, never was. I thought it would be a sophisticated show. Instead it never went beyond the comic strip level.
He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.
For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.
My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.
Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.
Straightforward fiction functions only as more Bubble Wrap, nostalgia, retreat.
A simplistic view of scientific evidence risks a path of too much faith followed by too much disillusionment.
From Kucharski’s book: Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty
I am a simple man.
I have to admit that most of what I wear on the daily is all black.
In Bollywood, everything is very one dimensional. This is a girl: she laughs a lot, is forever happy, chirpy, and that's all she is doing throughout the film. That's not how we are.