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Charles Darwin, creator of the theory of biological evolution via natural selection, stating an early version of what is now known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect:
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
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Herbert Simon, American social and political scientist:
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
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Andre Comte-Sponville, contemporary French philosopher:
“The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame… Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air… The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragically. He goes on his merry way, his heart light, his soul at peace, without a goal, without nostalgia, without impatience. The world is his kingdom, and suffices him. The present is his eternity, and delights him. He has nothing to prove, since he has no appearances to keep up, and nothing to seek, since everything is before him. What is more simple than simplicity? What lighter? It is the virtue of wise men and the wisdom of saints.”
Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance genius, artist, inventor, and polymath:
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Antoine De Saint-Exupery, French aviator and author of The Little Prince:
“Perfection is achieved not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing left to take away… And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Jason Fried, founder of 37signals:
“You don’t need to outdo the competition. It’s expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity.”
John Gall, systems theorist:
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.”
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian and archaeologist:
“Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.”
Thomas Aquinas, theologean:
“If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments where one suffices.”
Elaine St. James, author:
“Simplifying is not necessarily about getting rid of everything we’ve worked so hard for… It’s about deciding what’s important to us, and gracefully letting go of the things that aren’t.”
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Charlie Munger, master investor and long-time business associate of Warren Buffett:
“The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It’s powerful because it’s so rare.”
Ovid, Early Roman poet who is considered the greatest literary master of the elegiac couplet:
“We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would hurt our feelings.”
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Tibetian Buddhist monk and teacher:
“Those who seek happiness in pleasure, wealth, glory, power, and heroics are as naive as the child who tries to catch a rainbow and wear it as a coat.”
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, French mystery novelist:
“Pleasure is the happiness of madmen, while happiness is the pleasure of sages.”
Luca and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza, geneticists and human diversity experts:
“Happiness does not come automatically. It is not a gift that good fortune bestows upon us and a reversal of fortune takes back. It depends on us alone. One does not become happy overnight, but with patient labor, day after day. Happiness is constructed, and that requires effort and time. In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change ourselves.”
Tibetan proverb:
“Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.”
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Marcus Aurelius, Stoic philosopher and Emperor of Rome from 161 – 180 CE:
“Look within; within is the fountain of all good.”
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James Yorke, mathematician and physicist known for his work on chaos theory:
“The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.”
Charles Darwin, creator of the biological theory of evolution via natural selection:
“It is not the strongest of the species that survices, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
General Eric Shinseki, retired Chief of Staff of the US Army:
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevence even less.”
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I am responsible.
I am awareness.
I am creation.
I am consciousness.
I am justice, courage, benevolence, life.
I am injustice, cowardice, malevolence, death.
I alone create the contradictions in myself.
I am the order and I am the void.
I am Mother Theresa.
I am Adolph Hitler.
I am the whitest of the light and the blackest of the dark.
I am the sickness. I am the cure.
I am the child’s first breath and the elderly woman’s last.
I am transition.
I am fate.
I am timeless.
I am the change I wish to see in the world.
I am the world I wish to see changed.
I am responsible. I create the path and I alone walk it.
Who am I?
I am you.
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Samuel Butler, 17th-century British poet:
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.”
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