Complex Quotes
1613 quotes by 1299 authors
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We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.
— Guy Claxton
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American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in…
— Kalle Lasn
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How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
— Charles Darwin
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If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the…
— Bernie Sanders
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Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all…
— Jason Calacanis
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons,…
— Havelock Ellis
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex…
— John Updike
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Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex…
— Arthur Koestler
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony…
— Isaac Asimov
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What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
— Norman Mailer
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The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population.…
— Thomas Sowell
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Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just…
— Thomas Sowell
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Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.
— Brian Tracy
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If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good,…
— Robert Motherwell
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
— Paul Cezanne
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The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When…
— Thorstein Veblen
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