Joseph Conrad on Truth
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Joseph Conrad, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Joseph Conrad and filed under "truth" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Joseph Conrad, entry #22089: "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."
Attributed to Joseph Conrad, entry #154963: "The future is of our own making — and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development, that maturing of our consciousness which should open our eyes to th…"
7 Quotes by Joseph Conrad on Truth
"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."
"The future is of our own making — and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development, that maturing of our consciousness which should open our eyes to that truth."
"Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion."
"I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are not creatures of despair."
"Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight."
"The sea — this truth must be confessed — has no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."
"When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve to fall back again into the monotonous but safe stride of virtue as soon as his little excursion into the wayside quagmires had produced the desired effect."