Quotes About Complexity

I could only see you. I only wanted to be with you. But marriage is never just two people, is it? It's so much more.

One important aspect of it was his willingness to accept that many questions may be unresolved even after our best efforts, and our answers may remain incomplete.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

It takes a man to know men and all the wickedness mixed up in their flesh and blood.

To love is simple but difficult

L'identité ne se compartimente pas, elle ne se répartit ni par moitiés, ni par tiers, ni par plages cloisonnées.

You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you'll understand quite a lot.

I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can't be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn't prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection.

Hiçbir ÅŸeye ÅŸa??rma, hakikatin de insanlar?n da iki yüzü vard?r.

Ne t'étonne de rien, la réalité a deux visages, les hommes aussi.

Vous pourriez lire dix gros volumes sur l'histoire de l'islam depuis les origines, vous ne comprendriez rien à ce qui se passe en Algérie. Lisez trente pages sur la colonisation et la décolonisation, vous comprendrez beaucoup mieux

Le monde est une machine complexe qui ne se démonte pas avec un tournevis. Ce qui ne doit pas nous interdire d'observer, de chercher à comprendre, de spéculer, de discuter, de suggérer parfois telle ou telle voie de réflexion.

Yes Sierra Leone to me was both utterly familiar and ineffably alien: I knew it but I could not claim to understand it.

Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.

F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Preantepenult (adj.) Not the last, not the one before the last, and not the one before the one before the last. The next one. A sterling example of how it often can be far more confusing to use one word than several. It is far easier to say "the third from the last" than preantepenult. Prend

Anglo-Saxon tends not to lend itself to long and elaborate words that have strung together three or four affixes to create a rhetorical term for a very obscure thing. While

In just the first letter of the OED you will find words as magnificent as agathokakological (composed of good and evil), as delicately shaded as addubitation (the suggestion of doubt), and as odd as antithalian (opposed to fun or festivity). I

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

The world out there is inherently hard to understand and human brains are not wired to understand it well.

What I have found in similar settings is that good leadership (for instance, on the part of head nurses who demonstrate a commitment to safety and to openness), together with a clear, shared understanding that the work is complex and interdependent, can help groups build psychological safety, which in turn enables the candor that is so essential to ensuring the quality of patient care in modern hospitals.

Frankly, adopting a humble mindset when faced with the complex, dynamic, uncertain world in which we all work today is simply realism.