Quotes about Complexity
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
— Ray Comfort
Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.
— Joseph Heller
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
— Walt Disney
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow
— James Madison
The whole question is extraordinarily complicated because of the gulf that has grown up between art on the one hand and on the other hand both the Church and secular society, so that the artists tend to be out of touch with the common man, while the latter, whether Christian or not, has only a very fumbling critical judgment to rely on.
— Dorothy Sayers
It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.
— Lee Strobel
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
— GK Chesterton
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
— GK Chesterton
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
— Herman Melville
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
— Will Rogers