Barack Obama Quotes

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

I am not one to seek simple causes.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

What I really don't like is oversimplification.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

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!

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

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

I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is no one answer.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

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

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

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.

I have a point of view on the issues, but it's a complex point of view that really can't be summed up in a sentence or two. I'm not being intentionally vague or mushy, it's just that - in my mind - the real answer is complicated.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

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.

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

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.