Robert Louis Stevenson on Truth
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, entry #104580: "Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: — surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed."
Attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, entry #33724: "Each side, in these sort of civil broils, takes the name of honesty for its own."
5 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson on Truth
"Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: — surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed."
"Each side, in these sort of civil broils, takes the name of honesty for its own."
"The commonplaces are the great poetic truths."
"Wherever a man is, there will be a lie."
"The observer is all abroad. For to look at the man is but to court deception. We shall see the trunk from which he draws his nourishment; but he himself is above and abroad in the green dome of foliage, hummed through by winds and nested in by nightingales. And the true realism were that of the poets, to climb up after him like a squirrel, and catch some glimpse of the heaven for which he lives. And, the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all. In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action."