The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Postpone, not because you are being lazy. Postpone, only because you want to appear in a grand style.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication. — Bill Budge Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing in the mechanical world that matches the sophistication, complexity, and multi-tasking ability of the foot” — Michael Sandler Copy Share Image
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should… — Rolfe Humphries Copy Share Image
I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Your taste in books says more about you than any other single object in your house. It reflects your interest, your intelligence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. — George Will Copy Share Image
Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become...… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding… — Tim Macartney-Snape Copy Share Image
Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally...… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image