Complexity Quotes

613 quotes by 504 authors

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat? — Steven Morrissey
I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me — Donald Miller
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. — Mortimer Adler
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and… — Mortimer Adler
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge — Winston Churchill
The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis. — Douglas Adams
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. — Adrienne Rich
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have… — Daniel Dennett
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution… — Greg Iles
we would understand much more about lifeâ€™s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities… — Jose Saramago
to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge… — Alain de Botton
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart… — Christopher Moore
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up… — Ann Patchett
For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities. — William Carlos Williams
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently… — Michael Shermer
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has… — Malcolm Gladwell
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-… — Philip Pullman
All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will. — Tom Robbins
The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population… — P.J. O'Rourke

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