Herbert Spencer Quotes

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

I'm too disorganized.

This is chaos—organized chaos at best.

The more I see, the less I know.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

I'm all over the place.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.