Quotes About Truth

Istniej? my?li, którym jeste?my pos?uszni, nie znaj?c ich; s? w nas bez naszej wiedzy. Mimo ?e to spostrze?enie mo?e si? wyda? raczej paradoksem ni? prawd?, ka?dy szczery cz?owiek znajdzie na nie w ?yciu tysi?c dowodów.

Aki azzal dicsekszik, hogy sohasem változtatja meg a véleményét, az úgy tesz, mintha arra vállalkozna, hogy mindig nyílegyenes vonalban fog haladni. Együgy? az ilyen, hisz a csalhatatlanságban. Márpedig nincsenek elvek, csak események vannak; nincsenek törvények, csak körülmények vannak.

the proofs being more or less like us according to a distribution of shading which is so nearly imperceptible that our reputation depends (barring the calumnies of friends and the witticisms of newspapers) on the balance struck by our criticisers between Truth that limps and Falsehood to which Parisian wit gives wings.

Two hours later you might take the room for a battlefield after the fight. Broken glasses, serviettes crumpled and torn to rags lie strewn about among the nauseous-looking remnants of food on the dishes. There is an uproar that stuns you, jesting toasts, a fire of witticisms and bad jokes; faces are empurpled, eyes inflamed and expressionless, unintentional confidences tell you the whole truth.

In journalism," said Lousteau, "everything that is probable is true. That is an axiom.

Existe en todos los sentimientos humanos una flor primitiva, engendrada por un noble entusiasmo, que va marchitándose poco a poco hasta que la felicidad no es ya sino un recuerdo, y la gloria una mentira.

One single lie destroys the absolute confidence which to some souls is the very foundation of happiness.

We may see by what happens in our own day how history is falsified at the very moment when events happen.

Quand on connaît Paris, on ne croit à rien de ce qui s'y dit, et on ne dit rien de ce qui s'y fait.

All things are true, all things are false. Moral truths as well as human beings change their aspect according to their surroundings, to the point of being actually unrecognizable.

Triste condition de l'homme! il n'y a pas un de ses bounheurs qui ne vienne d'une ignorance quelconque." ??? ??? ???? ?? ??????? ??? ??? ?? ???? ???????? ??? ??? ????? ??? ??????? ????? ?? ??? ??

All is not gold that glitters,'" he began, his eyes flaming. "That's not it," said Mistigris. "'All is not old that titters.' You'll never get on in diplomacy if you don't know your proverbs better than that.

ll y a deux histoires : l'histoire officielle, menteuse, puis l'histoire secrète, où sont les véritables causes des événements.

Journalism may say or suppose anything, and our dignity forbids us even to reply.

You are mistaken there, my dear child," said Madame de Godollo. "Pascal, who was himself a great example of the falseness of your point of view, says, if I am not mistaken, that a little science draws us from religion, but a great deal draws us back to it.

there was no such piece of driveling nonsense in this world as a certificate of birth; that plenty of women were younger at forty than many a girl of twenty; and, to come to the point, that a woman is no older than she looks.

You can't say what you think, if it is true, as an illustrious author says it is, that a man must think his words before he speaks his thoughts,

History is, or ought to be, what it was; while romance ought to be "the better world," as was said by Mme. Necker, one of the most distinguished thinkers of the last century.

I know very well that before an audience plain, honest truth may fail to be contagious or even welcome. But have you never remarked that, by using our opportunities wisely, we finally meet with days which may be called the festivals of morality and intelligence, days on which, naturally and almost without effort, the thought of good triumphs?

Les erreurs de la femme viennent presque toujours de sa croyance au bien, ou dans sa confiance dans le vrai

La hardiesse du vrai s'élève à des combinaisons interdites à l'art, tant elles sont invraisemblables ou peu décentes, à moins que l'écrivain ne les adoucisse, ne les émonde, ne les châtre.

the truth can be both horrible and lovely at the same time.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.

And then the disquieting thought would come to him that perhaps after all epitaphs are not altogether to be trusted.