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Quotes about Complexity

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
- Anais Nin
Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.
- Samuel Johnson
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
- John Donne
She is all states, and all princes, I. Nothing else is.
- John Donne
If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love
- John Donne
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
- Milan Kundera
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
- Bill Gates
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
- Oscar Wilde
There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.
- Paulo Coelho
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
- CS Lewis