Mark Frost Quotes

I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can't un-know that, I find it harder now to offer simple solutions.

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

There is more to knowing than just being correct

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.