Quotes About Complexity

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

To generalize is to be an idiot.

An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Love is almost never simple.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Imagine others complexly.

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance.

Trent I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you're not sure whether or not you like yet. You're not sure where he's coming from. Okay You're a bad man. You're a bad man. You're a bad man, bad man.

A lion is a mammal like us; an octopus is put together completely differently, with three hearts, a brain that wraps around its throat, and a covering of slime instead of hair. Even their blood is a different color from ours; it's blue, because copper, not iron, carries its oxygen.

Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley

I do not think I'm easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I'm not anything that you think I am.

We are all too fond of naive answers to complex questions, because it relieves us of the necessity of thinking hard and it permits us to find a scapegoat for our own mistakes. The simple answer almost always places the blame on someone else. We need to pluralize our thinking, to recognize that if you ask the wrong question, you cannot get the right answers.

Long since, the standard way of understanding surface has been as an abstract and undifferentiated plane that functions above all to veil or delimit a depth. From the face that mirrors the soul, to the magic writing tablet that reveals subconscious drives, the surface, any surface, all surfaces, have been considered worthy of attention insofar as they are the top layer, the outermost skin, the merely visible envelope of more particularized and specific under or inner depths.

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult.… The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.