Quotes About Truth

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

It is a strange fact, but incontestable, that the philanthropist, who ardent in his desire to do good, who patient, reasonable and gentle, yet disdains to use other argument than truth, has less influence over men's minds than he who, grasping and selfish, refuses not to adopt any means, nor awaken any passion, nor diffuse any falsehood, for the advancement of his cause.

Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

I have thus endeavoured to preserve the truth of the elementary principles of human

Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.

Si dice che Isaac Newton abbia confessato di sentirsi come un bambino che raccoglie conchiglie sulle rive dell'immenso e inesplorato oceano della verità.

Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of happiness?

Si la mentira se parece tanto a la verdad, ¿quién puede creer en la felicidad?

Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded—a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be!

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have thus endeavoured to preserve the truth of the elementary principles of human nature, while I have not scrupled to innovate upon their combinations.

Puede que sea inocente del crimen, ¡pero está claro que tiene mala conciencia!

Pero debemos vivir, no representar, nuestras vidas; siguiendo una sombra, perdí la realidad.

No leía, como hacen muchos, meramente para pasar el rato, sino que seguía interrogándose a sí misma y al autor, modelando cada idea de mil maneras, deseosa de descubrir una verdad en cada frase.

So true it is, that man's mind alone was the creator of all that was good or great to man, and that Nature herself was only his first minister.

He may be innocent of the murder, but he has certainly a bad conscience.

Ay! Víctor, cuando la felicidad puede adoptar la apariencia de verdad, ¿quién puede estar seguro de alcanzar alguna felicidad?

I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it is you say.

Was my dream but a mirror of the truth?