Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Some formulas are too complex and I don’t want anything to do with them.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Religion is just mind control.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

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.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.