André Maurois on Truth
Browse 6 quotations attributed to André Maurois, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
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Attributed to André Maurois, entry #49924: "The great classic writers, it will be said, sought rather to proclaim universal truths than to leave their imprint on them."
Attributed to André Maurois, entry #59845: "Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage."
6 Quotes by André Maurois on Truth
"The great classic writers, it will be said, sought rather to proclaim universal truths than to leave their imprint on them."
"Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage."
"The true sporting spirit has always something religious about it."
"The truth is that, from the immense spectacle of the world, each novelists retains the one adventure which enable shim to give expression to his own essential self, just as the painter sees in nature only pictures painted in his manner."
"The truth seems to be that monogamous marriage, mitigated in certain countries by divorce and in certain other by tolerance of infidelity, persists in our Western civilization as the solution which entails the least suffering for the greatest number of people."
"Almost all of our fellow-beings deceive us, but a few of us have known the joy of meeting a woman or a man whose sincerity and frankness were genuine, who in almost every situation has behaved according to our wishes, and who in our most difficult moments has not forsaken us. Those few are familiar with that marvelous feeling: confidence. With at least one person they are able for a little while each day to lift the heavy visor of their helmets, breathe freely, and show their faces and their hearts without fear."