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Quotes About Complexity

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.
~ Matt Bomer
Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.
~ Matt Ridley
I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.
~ Maureen Dowd
Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.
~ Max Beerbohm
Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.
~ Michael Jordan
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
~ Michel de Montaigne
How strange a thing is the heart of man!
~ Murasaki Shikibu
Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
~ Philippa Gregory
I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.
~ Poppy Montgomery
There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.
~ Ovid
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
~ Rex Stout
Who knows why men do anything?
~ Richard Adams
In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.
~ Richard M. Weaver
Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.
~ Rick Yancey
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.
~ Robert A. Heinlein