Belinda Johnson Quotes

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.