Quotes About Nuance

in life there were times when the entirely inappropriate was the only appropriate response. Perhaps

Let's never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

To grow up is to endure the equivocal, to permit the ambiguous.

The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know; how complex and nuanced the subject at hand insists on remaining.

It's a rule in life that the more certain we appear about something, the less we know about it. It has a name – the Dunning–Kruger effect – and it is at work every time someone tells you with absolute certainty how things are in the world. The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know; how complex and nuanced the subject at hand insists on remaining.

You're trying to paint things as either black or white," he said. "As either good or evil. It's never that neat.

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

Exactly. Well, not exactly. She didn't say 'have sex.' She

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

By erasing any nuance and complexity about porn and sexuality, the virginity movement gives young women only two choices of who they can be sexually: sluts or not sluts. While the first choice doesn't seem attractive, I can guarantee you that most young women are going to go with the option that allows them to have sex. And there's no in-between identity for young women who are making smart, healthy choices in their sexual lives.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

He invites us to recognize that our values evolve as we mature and "move from an understanding of ethical and moral issues in black and white absolutist terms to comprehending the gray ambiguity of most matters."6

We do not have to be trapped in the simple-minded binaries of the western world.

I dislike cloyingly sweet desserts - sweet is not a flavor - so I suggest dialing back the sweetness and focusing on what the dessert is about, whether it is a ripe fruit, chocolate, etc.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

Life isn't black or white, it's all sorts of shades of grey.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.