Complexity Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just…

— John Ruskin

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

— Joseph Addison

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

— Edwin Louis Cole

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

— Richard Whately

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

— Horace Greeley

I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men have desired to gain knowledge and then power so that they can accomplish their goals of conquest, control, and manipulation.

— Anonymous

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they…

— Jean de la Bruyere