Elbert Hubbard Quotes

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

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

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

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.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

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.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

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.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Truth is always paradoxical.

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

Everything in life is gray, you know.

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

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

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

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

The color of truth is gray.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.