Complex Truth Quotes

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

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

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.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

If you walk out of a movie that's meant to be about race in our country, and you're feeling good and happy, then that movie didn't tell you all of the truth. It's too big of an issue, and it's too complicated for you to feel good. It's something you should feel like you need to talk about.

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

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

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

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

The truth is always multiplex.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.

The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.

There are always many sides to the truth.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

I've found you don't have to make anything up. Reality is so complex and fascinating and horrible and beautiful.

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.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.

There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.