
“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”
Essay on Freud (16 May 1929)
“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”
Essay on Freud (16 May 1929)
As quoted by his son Hans Bohr in "My Father", published in Niels Bohr: His Life and Work (1967), p. 328
Unsourced variant: The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
As quoted in Max Delbrück, Mind from Matter: An Essay on Evolutionary Epistemology, (1986) p. 167. It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth
“It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.”
As quoted in The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang, p. v
Attributed
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1851/feb/11/agricultural-distress in the House of Commons (2 February 1851).
1850s
“The truth is, that in favor of almost every sect, the names of some great men can be pronounced.”
The Great Infidels (1881)
“Great comedy is great comedy only if it has an element of truth in it.”
[Davis, E. Gene, Get 'Em Laughing: Public Speaking Humor, Quotes and Illustrations, Trafford Publishing, 2007-09-12, 68, 1425114334, 9781425114336]
Attributed
Courage and alertness
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 16 January 1983.
“Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.”
Scene XVI, The Hesperian Sphere
Festus (1839)