Quotes About Truth

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

La vérité est comme le soleil, elle fait tout voir et ne se laisse pas regarder.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate.

To have lied is to have suffered.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

There is no hypocrisy so great as the words which we say to ourselves, I wish to know the worst! At heart we do not wish it at all. We have a dreadful fear of knowing it. Agony is mingled with a dim effort not to see the end. We do not own it to ourselves, but we would draw back if we dared; and when we have advanced, we reproach ourselves for having done so.

Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone. And conscience, added the bishop. It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

The reflection of a fact is in itself a fact.

Right is just and true.

No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...

Il y a des illusions touchantes qui sont peut-être des réalités sublimes.