Truth Complexity Quotes

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

The truth is always multiplex.

There are always many sides to the truth.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.

The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.