Top 222 Sophistication Quotes & Sayings

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower.

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.

Polo is a quintessentially English sport. It stands for quality and sophistication and is recognised all over the world as such.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me.

One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave.

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

simplicity is the best sophistication

A turtleneck is about sophistication.

Sophistication isn't what you wear and who you know.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.