Quotes about Complexity
in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.
- Graham Greene
Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle. When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.
- Graham Greene
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
- Audre Lorde
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.
- Robert Brault
I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.
- LM Montgomery
Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.
- LM Montgomery
Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.
- LM Montgomery
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
- George Bernard Shaw
A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
- Herman Melville
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
- George Bernard Shaw
To try to distill the Bible, which is bursting with life, drama, and tension, to a series of principles would be like trying to reduce a living person to a diagram.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel