best quotations about
Complexity |
and Humanity
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Quotations
 | People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 17 likes |
 | An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault. — William Castle, 1914-1977, American filmaker 7 likes |
 | Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 7 likes |
 | Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 7 likes |
 | 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, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 6 likes |
 | It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest issues cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 5 likes |
 | Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | A variety of colors makes man’s eye blind; a diversity of sounds makes man’s ear deaf; a mixture of flavors makes man’s palate dull. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 4 likes |
 | Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 4 likes |
 | Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 3 likes |
 | Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 3 likes |
 | Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 3 likes |
 | Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
 | Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial. — Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician 3 likes |
 | Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. — Northcote Parkinson, 1909-1993, British historian 2 likes |
 | There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
 | I have often noticed that children's lies are only an effort to simplify to put within the reach of adults a situation whose delicacy exceeds them. |
 | The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated. |
 | The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one. |
 | The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
 | What prevents us from seeing God is that our spirit is complex, while God's is simple. — Malcolm de Chazal, 1902-1981, Mauritian thinker & aphorist |
 | Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems. |
