Quotes About Truth

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Se ignora lo que se debe saber, y se sabe lo que se debería ignorar.

Vrai ou faux, ce qu'on dit des hommes tient souvent autant de place dans leur vie et surtout dans leur destinée que ce qu'ils font.

Let us fight. Let us fight, but let us discriminate. The characteristic of truth is never to be extreme. What need has it to exaggerate? There is that which needs to be destroyed, and there is that which simply needs to be elucidated and examined. Well intentioned and serious examination, that is a force to be reckoned with! Let us not put to the torch where it is enough to bring light.

The realities of the soul are none the less realities because they are not visible and palpable.

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

Assim como só nas entranhas da Terra se acham os diamantes, assim somente nas entranhas do pensamento se encontram as verdades.

Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

Facts are sometimes like a hailstorm. They bombard you; they deafen you.

The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other than Jean Valjean.

It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. Sometimes even several of them at a time.

God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.

The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future.

Así como los diamantes sólo se encuentran en las profundidades de la tierra, las verdades sólo se hallan en las profundidades del pensamiento.

La honradez de un gran corazón, condensada en justicia y en verdad, fulmina.

Dichoso, aún en medio del dolor, aquél que a Dios ha dado un alma digna del amor y de la desgracia! El que no ha visto las cosas de este mundo y el corazón de los hombres a esta doble luz, no ha visto nada verdadero, ni sabe nada. El alma que ama y padece se encuentra en un estado sublime.

Lo que de los hombres se dice, verdadero o falso, ocupa tanto lugar en su destino, y sobre todo en su vida, como lo que hacen. El

Tout y est sobre, exact, nu, précis, correct. Un phare est un chiffre

As realidades da alma não deixam de ser realidades por não serem visíveis e palpáveis.

This demonstrates the novel truth—that great events have incalculable consequences.