Jules Verne Quotes

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

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.'

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

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

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

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

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

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

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

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.'

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

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

What darkness to you is light to me

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

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.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.