Quotes About Complexity

I don't understand beauty.

The heart of a man is like deep water.

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's quotation: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function?

Nobody knows what language is. It isn't just speech, that's for sure. But try to explain that to some of these reductionist structural linguists.

If this sounds like strange talk from a scientist—so be it. If there is one thing I have learned from a lifetime study of science, it is that the world is not a place we human beings will ever comprehend. Understand, yes; comprehend, no.

classic example of what we programmers call emergent behavior.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

This wine is austere, structured, with great finesse, and a long, lingering finish.

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction a delta springing from the riverbed with its five fingers spread

Our minds may believe that we need subtle and complex spiritual teachings to guide us to Reality, but we do not. In fact, the more complex the teaching is, the easier it is for the mind to hide from itself amidst the complexity while imagining that it is advancing toward enlightenment. But it is often only advancing in creating more and more intricate circles to walk around and around in.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

Do you not realize, Hastings, that each and everyone of us is a complete mystery with layers. We each try to judge each other, but nine times out of ten, we are wrong.

The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.

Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before.

What are murderers like? Some of them, have been thoroughly nice chaps.

To be part of something one doesn't in the least understand is, I think, one of the most intriguing things about life.

Human nature is full of inconsistencies

A natureza humana está cheia de incongruências.

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.