Causes Quote by Raymond Holliwell

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

— Edward de Bono

Why should things be easy to understand?

— Thomas Pynchon

There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

— Miyamoto Musashi

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

— Robert Fripp

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.

— P.D. Ouspensky

To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles.

— Milton Friedman

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

— John Maeda

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

— William of Ockham

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

— Baltasar Gracian

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

— Casey Stengel

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

— Albert Einstein

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

— Haruki Murakami