Quote by Abraham Verghese Download Open image ““...I'd become aware of human complexity--that's a kinder word than "deceit.”” — Abraham Verghese ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.” — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
“Humanity is not that difficult to understand; it is inhumanity that I cannot decipher.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“There is no boundary to the human mind’s capacity to deceive its very owner.” — Al Zelczer Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“I replaced emotional complexity with visual and intellectual complexity. I questioned everything and looked to logic, science, and intellect for answers.” — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.” “The words of truth are always paradoxical.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are forms of complexity in all people...Always update your state of mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Do they listen?" He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“This is my life, I thought, as my taxi slogged through heavy traffic and inched through the tunnel to Logan Airport. I have excised… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“As a child I'd longed for Thomas Stone or at least the idea of him. So many mornings I waited for him at the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
