Pat Buchanan Quotes

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

We have deep depth.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

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

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little clarity - or are you going to say something really clearly, and sacrifice a little nuance? Get too obscure, and you sound like a pretentious asshole; go overboard with the clarity, and you sound like you're talking down to your audience, or like you yourself are a reductive simpleton.

When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues.