Quotes About Nuance

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.

Life is not positive or negative; it's a mixture.

Quand apprendras-tu qu'il n'existe pas un mot pour chaque chose ?

Communication is not a yes-or-no but rather a more-or-less affair.

When everyone says the same thing about some complex topic, what should come to your mind is, 'wait a minute, nothing can be that simple, something's wrong.' That's the immediate light that should go off in your brain when you ever hear unanimity on some complex topic. (The Ezra Klein Show 2021/04/23)

Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

Americans see everything too simply—a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate greys is tiresome and perplexing.

I am not one and simple, but complex and many.

It is no use trying to sum people up.

For nothing was simply one thing.

So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing

I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.

She would not say of anyone that they were this or that.

Tudo parece significar tantas coisas (...)

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic

Caress the details, the divine details. In high art and pure science detail is everything.

Couleur locale has been responsible for many hasty appreciations, and local color is not a fast color.

In Pauline and Mal's house, nothing was simple. In her parents' house, things had been good or bad, right or wrong, useful or wasteful. There had been nothing in between. Here, she found, everything had nuance; everything had an unrevealed side or unexplored depths. Everything was worth looking at more closely.

But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on. He

Here, she found, everything had nuance; everything had an unrevealed side or unexplored depths.

the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on.