The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
More from: Robert Louis Stevenson
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same. -
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. -
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. -
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. -
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
More quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
- Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
- The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
- It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.