Quotes About Complexity

Humans'race is just simply full of colors,but human itself is truly complicated.

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

Human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.

In order to make most good, least harm choices, and create a humane and sustainable world, we are going to have to become adept at making connections. Single-issue thinking and taking sides when issues are presented to us in simplistic terms will have to give way to far more nuanced research, consideration, and decision making.

A parent's experience is an unknowable one. How, after all, can a child fathom what it means to be a parent, let alone a parent of a certain generation, with a certain personal history, with a certain spouse, with even a certain child? I get ready for my meeting with

Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

To be intelligent, be complex; to be wise, be simple.

It is significant to realize that the most creative environments in our society are not the ever-changing ones. The artist's studio, the researcher's laboratory, the scholar's library are each deliberately kept simple so as to support the complexities of the work-in-progress. They are deliberately kept predictable so the unpredictable can happen.

That's the problem with life. It rarely gives you neat decisions wrapped up in shiny paper with a bow on top. Most of the important decisions in life are messy.

She always seems like the one normal person in the family. Then you get to know her better, and you realize that she's cunning, devious and twisted.

My mother was what I wanted to be: an enchanting enigma.

She is dark. He is fair. She comes from there. He comes from here. They like each other. It is an easy and lovely lust ...

She had to admit he was quite handsome even though he was repulsive.

Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.

People, even those closest to you, are surprising...Nobody is everything they seem.

You're human, and sometimes the vagaries of life are just too delicious to ignore.

Once she had thought that she might discover some key to her mother if only she could get her likeness right, but she has since learned that the mysteries of another person only deepen, the longer one looks.

One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

for all I told myself, I didn't just make my living this way, and it wasn't about justice; I seemed to need the chaos other people brought me so I could make a pattern from it, establish the connections they couldn't see themselves. Not from envy, but from need

Mix a quart of uncertainty, a quart of complexity, a quart of mystery, and a quart of adventure and you have a gallon of life.

Sometimes the word 'gratitude' feels too thin to explain things.

We cannot even imagine the complex forces behind every event that occurs in our lives. You never know how and when any life experience will reappear. You never know when a coincidence will lead to the opportunity of a lifetime.