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“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.”

Thinking Reason Truth Belief Given Term Education Mankind Possibility Opposites Extremes Likes

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]”

Men Truth Opposites

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.”

Ifs Way Stories Happens Truth Opposites Things Happen Being True One Way True Story

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”

Would Be Truth Clear Opposites Notion Statements Untrue Imports Unfaithful

Book:The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Source: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

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

Truth Lying Truth Is Opposites

Author:Thomas Mann

“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”

May Truth Lying Balance Truth Is Opposites

Author:Susan Sontag

“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.”

Inspirational Truth Family Truth Is Opposites

Author:Niels Bohr

“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”

Wells May Facts Truth Science Opposites Profound Falsehood Truth And Falsehood Profound Truth

Author:Niels Bohr

“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”

Giving Truth Stage Illusion Opposites Appearance Tricks Pleasant Pockets Disguise Magician Sleeves Menagerie

Book:The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.”

World Firsts Truth Turns Discovery Opposites Errors Assumption Exposure Identical

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”

Writing Facts Reality Truth Turns Opposites Intelligence Accomplish Good Writers

Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.”

Kind Two Truth Simple Clear Opposites Statements Assertion Old Saying

Author:Niels Bohr

“Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.”