Wisdom distils and synthesises

• Absorb what is useful, disregard the rest. Bruce Lee
• Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. Alfred North Whitehead
• Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies. Mason Cooley
• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang
• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin Fischer
• To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao- Tzu
• Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen Proverb
• Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. Ram Dass
• Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. John A. Morrison
• Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Eliot
• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. Edward O. Wilson

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Wisdom simplifies…

• Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies. Mason Cooley
• Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men Tunku Abdul Rahman

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…making the complex simple

• To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. … Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify. Bruno Munari
• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
• 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. F. Schumacher
• The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. Criss Jami
• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. Steve Jobs

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Wisdom is well aware of the power in simplicity

• Simplify always – do not complicate. Emile Coue
• Simplify, simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
• Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
• Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
• To simplify complications is the first essential of success. George Earle Buckle
• Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. Charles Dudley Warner
• In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. Plato
• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann
• The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex. Yvon Chouinard
• As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau
• I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. Henry David Thoreau

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Wisdom knows that truth is usually simple

• Simple is the speech of truth. Aeschylus
• The words of truth are simple. Aeschylus
• The language of truth is simple. Euripides
• Simple is the language of truth. Seneca the Younger
• The simplest things are often the truest. Richard Bach
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
• And simple truth miscalled simplicity William Shakespeare
• Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed. Rabindranath Tagore
• Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety. Pope Leo I
• All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie? Friedrich Nietzsche
• Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations. -Luc de Clapiers
• Nothing is true, but that which is simple. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals. Jean-Paul Sartre
• The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. John Green
• Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. Ammianus Marcellinus
• The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. Ammianus Marcellinus
• It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple. Dziga Vertov
• The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality. Dag Hammarskjold
• The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it. Walt Whitman
• Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Mahlon Hoagland
• The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult. Mahatma Gandhi
• Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Simplicity is one of the earmarks of truth, verified by subjective experience. David R. Hawkins
• So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple. Tycho Brahe
• The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. Swami Vivekananda
• A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed. Vash Young
• There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer. Gao Xingjian
• All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths. Napoleon Hill
• It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked. Ramesh S Balsekar
• Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more. Meher Baba
• The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness. Ramana Maharshi
• The truth is the most obvious thing, yet we are always looking for a needle in a haystack. When you see the Truth, nothing changes.  A tree is still a tree, a mountain is a mountain.  Durckheim Karlfried Graf
• Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view. William Faulkner
• I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high – whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops – is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them. Andrew Bacevich
• Truth is simple. And no matter how simply a truth is stated, only those who have walked the path of understanding and evolution on their own can know and understand it authentically. The path of truth is the path least traveled. Authenticity is the clarity of being in which there is no self-deceit. Yasuhiko Kimura