Quotes about Complexity
The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.
- Reid Hoffman
I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.
- Cody Simpson
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?
- Ravi Zacharias
The universe is not a machine; it is an organic whole.
- Ravi Zacharias
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
- Ray Comfort
Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.
- Joseph Heller
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
- Walt Disney
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow
- James Madison
The whole question is extraordinarily complicated because of the gulf that has grown up between art on the one hand and on the other hand both the Church and secular society, so that the artists tend to be out of touch with the common man, while the latter, whether Christian or not, has only a very fumbling critical judgment to rely on.
- Dorothy Sayers
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
- Damian Lewis
I understood the whole purpose of Truth and Reconciliation, and I supported it 100 per cent, but I couldn't deal with it myself.
- John Kani