Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

Ignorance never settles a question.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.