I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“But the truth of his teaching would seem to be this: in our own person and fortune, we should be ready to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“No man lives in the external truth, among salt and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image