Krista Tippett Quotes

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.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

There are two sides to every question.

When I made TV shows, people called them regressive. Clearly, everyone wants to generalize everything, but I like to choose a middle path.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

There is more than two sides. Facts are often apart from what both sides say about each other.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.