Simplistic View Quotes

There is often a simplistic view that HDL is good, so that anything that raises HDL is good for you, and anything that lowers it is bad for you. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Anything that has only two choices is wrong.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

When I was a kid, 'Robocop' to me was just good guys and bad guys.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

There's a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.

No, Blitz. That's oversimplifying it.

Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

A simplistic view of scientific evidence risks a path of too much faith followed by too much disillusionment.