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Quotes About Complexity

different aspects of our complexity are 'drawn out' by different people, and that it is also possible to experience ourselves differently and more positively in a less stressed, more mutually accepting relationship.
~ Stephanie Dowrick
I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
~ Boris Pasternak
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
~ Thomas Mann
The color of truth is gray.
~ Andre Gide
There are many levels of truth.
~ Alan Dershowitz
The truth is always multiplex.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.
~ Humphry Davy
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
~ Norbert Wiener
It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.
~ Albert Einstein
the truth is often a mixed message
~ Dan Savage
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
~ George F. Kennan
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
~ Roy Basler
Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended
~ Brennan Manning
Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.
~ Roy Stryker
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
~ Stanley Baldwin
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
~ Aristotle
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
~ Michael Servetus
Truth, like love, is never absolute.
~ E. Lynn Harris
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
~ Tom Stoppard