“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Life is not supposed to make things complex. It is to unwind things, by giving simple answers to simple questions.”
— Neamat Imam, book The Black Coat
The Black Coat (2013)
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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
In some published transcripts or quotations of this speech a variant of this statement appears immediately before the quote by Churchill below, but was not said during Reagan's televised address on (27 October 1964). Though he did make variations of the speech elsewhere it is unclear exactly when and where he may have said used these precise words:<br>: They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. <br class="br">Later variant: For many years now, you and I have been shushed like children and told there are no simple answers to the complex problems which are beyond our comprehension. Well, the truth is, there are simple answers, they just are not easy ones.<br>:* California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech (5 January 1967) http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/govspeech/01051967a.htm <br class="br">1960s, A Time for Choosing (1964)
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Kenneth Boulding (1986) "Proceedings of the 7th Friends Association for Higher Education Conference, Malone College, 1986" p. 4, quoted in Debora Hammond, The Science of Synthesis, Colorado: University of Colorado Press, 2003.
1980s
“Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.”
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 8, “On Sikkihoq’s Back” (p. 188).
“Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil