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Quotes About Complexity

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.
~ Helen Waddell
Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.
~ John Cage
Truth defies simplicity.
~ John Green
Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity
~ John Green
He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.
~ Julia Quinn
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
~ Lewis Thomas
Truth is a big concept.
~ Lukas Foss
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.
~ Manohla Dargis
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
~ Michel de Montaigne
For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.
~ Rachel Kushner
You can never completely know anyone, no matter how well you think you do. There will always be some truth about them you don't ever get to know.
~ Susane Colasanti
Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le complique . Truth is too simple; it must always be arrived at in a complicated manner.
~ Sydney Samuelson
Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world
~ Terry Eagleton
I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.
~ Tom Hiddleston
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
~ Walter Isaacson
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
~ Walter Scott, Marmion
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.
~ Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.
~ Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
~ Oscar Wilde
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
~ Isaac Newton
There are always two sides to a story.
~ Una McCormack
These Days, Keeping Anything "Simple" Is The Most "Complex" Task To Do....
~ Muhammad Imran Hasan
Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
~ Criss Jami, Healology