The Truth Is Never Simple Quotes

#1. The truth is never simple. It's only in the Western world that you think knowledge is something you can acquire quickly and easily. It takes time. The truth never hurries.

Henning Mankell

#2. I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.

Jeannette Walls

#3. Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how much a simple act of kindness is appreciated if you never try. Be that candle for someone today and shine bright.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#4. A simple thought can transform you forever. So cultivate beautiful thoughts, ugliness never.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

Steve Wynn

#7. I don't really think about roles - "dream roles." It's always about who's gonna be the person on the screen or who's gonna be the person on the stage and who's gonna direct it and put it all together.

Carey Mulligan

#8. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30).
1)Consider the person ("only what is helpful for building others up")
2) Consider the problem ("according to their needs")
3) Consider the process ("that it may benefit those who listen")

Timothy S. Lane

#10. Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available ...

Karen Traviss

#11. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

Greg Iles

#12. I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high - whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops - is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them.

Andrew Bacevich

#13. My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

Bennett Miller

#14. He awakened to the simple truth that it is never what a person says or does that affects him, it is his reaction to what is said or done that matters.

Joseph Murphy

#15. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#16. The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar - another means to control.

Chris Galford

#17. A reporter asked Barth what was the single most important theological discovery he'd made. After stopping to consider his answer carefully, Barth said, "Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so." Indeed, we can never outgrow that one great, majestic, and simple transforming truth.

Mark Driscoll

#18. Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that up. They try to outdo each other by adding another 10 ounces, so their 80 ounce steak becomes a 90 ounce steak with 10 pounds of mashed potatoes on the side.

Graham Elliot

#19. The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

Oscar Wilde

#20. The simple truth - every day is precious. When it's gone, it never comes back to you.

Emilie Barnes

#21. The pure and simple truth, it has been said, is rarely pure and never simple.

Ben Mercer

#22. It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

James Cameron

#23. Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

George W. Bush

#24. While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

Jerrold Nadler

#25. 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.

Marisha Pessl

#26. Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.

Agatha Christie

#27. The truth is the truth. 'Rarely pure and never simple,' as Oscar Wilde would say.

Kami Garcia

#28. However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth.

Arthur C. Clarke

#29. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.

Scott Lynch