Quotes about Complexity
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
— George Bernard Shaw
To try to distill the Bible, which is bursting with life, drama, and tension, to a series of principles would be like trying to reduce a living person to a diagram.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Things are much simpler here than we like. Not that we do not know God's commandments, but that we do not do them—and then gradually, as a consequence of such disobedience, we no longer know what is right—that is our predicament.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.
— Amy Grant
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.
— Steve Jobs
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
— Ernest Hemingway
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
— Ernest Hemingway
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
— Ernest Hemingway
Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.
— Ernest Hemingway