Remy de Gourmont Quotes

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

Truth is the daughter of time.

Time discovers truth.

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Truth is child of Time.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

Nature tells every secret once.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."