Guy de Maupassant Quotes

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Seeing is not always believing.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Everything you know could already be wrong.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

There are no indisputable truths.

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.