Quotes About Complex Minds

#1. Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Remy De Gourmont

#2. Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.

Jane Hirshfield

#3. I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

James McCartney

#4. The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Henry Fielding

#5. Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.

Mark Batterson

#6. It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self Imaginative people have messier minds.

Scott Barry Kaufman

#7. A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

Carl Sagan

#8. The institutions, conventions, customs and laws that make up the complex structure of a society are the work of a hundred centuries and a billion minds; and one mind must not expect to comprehend them in one lifetime, much less in twenty years.

Will Durant

#9. By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

Richard G. Scott

#10. The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.

Daniel Hannan

#11. Ah! How contrary are the teachings of Jesus to the feelings of nature! Without the help of His grace it would be impossible not only to put them into practice, but to even understand them.

Therese De Lisieux

#12. Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win.

Guy Kawasaki

#13. There's no use beating yourself up about what you can't change.

Rose McIver

#14. There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.

Jon Katz

#15. Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is when our minds becomes mature enough for sex.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.

Josh Hopkins

#17. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter ... or at least, most minds are ...

J.K. Rowling

#18. Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday. Kathleen

Kathleen Collins

#19. From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Noam Chomsky

#20. There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do.

Tony Dungy

#21. You did anything to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed.

Dinos Christianopoulos

#22. And forgive me if this is harsh, but I don't want you getting it into your head that the love you have for Ridge will be enough to hold you over until the day Maggie dies. Because Maggie isn't dying, Sydney. Maggie's living. She'll be around a lot longer than Ridge's heart could ever survive you.

Colleen Hoover

#23. The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.

Thomas Parker Boyd