4 Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Truth

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes on truth

34. All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. The follies of youth have a basis in sound reason, just as much as the embarrassing questions put by babes and sucklings. Their most antisocial acts indicate the defects of our society. When the torrent sweeps the man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

63. Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

65. God, if this were enough, That I see things bare to the buff.

77. A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

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