Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

Truth is a tendency.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

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

Moral: It all depends.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

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

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

The color of truth is gray.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.