Quotes about Complexity
The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Things are much simpler here than we like. Not that we do not know God's commandments, but that we do not do them—and then gradually, as a consequence of such disobedience, we no longer know what is right—that is our predicament.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.
- Amy Grant
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.
- Steve Jobs
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
- Ernest Hemingway
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
- Ernest Hemingway
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
- Ernest Hemingway
Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.
- Ernest Hemingway
But, then, nothing is easy.
- Ernest Hemingway
The biggest boy was long and dark with Thomas Hudson's neck and shoulders and the long swimmer's legs and big feet. He had a rather Indian face and was a happy boy although in repose his face looked almost tragic.
- Ernest Hemingway
I'm going back to Mike." I could feel her crying as I held her close. "He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.
- Ernest Hemingway