A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German - Novelist
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Lawrence Durrell

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

Seneca the Younger

I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.

Nas

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.

Roger Wolcott Sperry

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.

Janet Leigh

Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.

Andre Comte-Sponville

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

Gayle Forman

The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.

Christopher Pike

Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.

B. R. Ambedkar

Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated.

Henry Spencer

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.