Quotes About Complexity

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Don't try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.