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Quotes about Nuance

We always have to be careful that in exposing one truth we don't cover up another. Or
- Shane Claiborne
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.
- Barack Obama
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
- Bishop TD Jakes
We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.'
- Lydia Millet
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
- Oscar Wilde
It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described
- Margaret Atwood
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
- LM Montgomery
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
- Graham Greene
The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.
- Lewis Carroll
Details create success.
- John Wooden
Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won't be distracted by nuance or even truth.
- Ed Stetzer