Quote of Victor Hugo - Truth is like the sun. It...

Biography - Victor Hugo:

French writer, poet and dramatist.
Born: 1802 - Died: 1885
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.”
Victor Hugo

Translation

(French, German)

La vérité est comme le soleil. Elle fait tout voir et ne se laisse pas regarder.”
Victor Hugo

Die Wahrheit ist wie die Sonne. Sie erhellt alles, lässt sich aber nicht betrachten.”
Victor Hugo

Quotes for: truth:

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
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Love truth, but pardon error.”
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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”
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The language of truth is simple.”
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Conformity of the intellect to the things.”
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
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Quotes for: sun:

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.”
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The sun is new each day.”
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Education is another sun to those who are educated.”
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As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.”
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You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun”
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The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.”
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Victor Hugo also said...

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

Hide your life and spread your spirit.”
Victor Hugo - Les rayons et les ombres

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Victor Hugo - William Shakespeare

How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.”
Victor Hugo

nature

Music is noise that thinks.”
Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Victor Hugo

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