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Truth Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
- A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a…
- Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of…
- I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For…
- Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise…
- A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
- The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever…
- Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,…
- No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle…
- My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel —…
- It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,…
- A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
- And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment…
- Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
- The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after…
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle