Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

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

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 trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another 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.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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

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.'

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

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

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.

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

the truth is often a mixed message