Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity? — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe… — Lew Welch Copy Share Image
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can… — Dan Geer Copy Share Image
We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction” — Doris P. Johnson Copy Share Image
For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice. — Peter Dale Scott Copy Share Image
