Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

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

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

There is always room for at least two truths.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

Truth is always paradoxical.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

There are two words for everything.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.