Quotes About Nuance

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

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

Truth is too multi-faceted to be contained in a five-line summary.

Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred per cent.

The color of truth is gray.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

the truth is often a mixed message

The truth is in the details.

There are always many sides to the truth.

Truth resists simplicity.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

The truth seems to love the small print.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.

The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.

No one answer is ever the answer.

The color of truth is grey.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

Words are tricky things, a friend of his has told him, they're much more tricky than violins.

You're an archaeologist. Truth comes finally into the light. It's in the bones and sediment. It's in character and nuance and mood. That is what governs us in our lives, that's not the truth. For the living it is the truth.

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.