Quotes About Truth

But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.

Believe me, it gives us no pleasure to destroy men's faiths, but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. A.C.C.

Even if, to the naked human eye, a waterfall and a shower of bricks appeared very different, they were really much the same. The tiny "bricks" of H2O were too small to be visible to the unaided senses, but they could be easily discerned by the instruments of the physicists.

Within a few days, all mankind's multitudinous messiahs had lost their divinity. Beneath the fierce and passionless light of truth, faiths that had sustained millions for twice a thousand years vanished like morning dew.

It still believed in everything that the Master had taught it; though it had seen him fake his miracles and tell lies to his followers, these inconvenient facts did not affect its loyalty. It was able, like many humans before it, to reconcile two conflicting sets of data.

people will panic. Riots, looting. You'll see. That's why we keep secrets, Ms. Duflot. Because people can't handle the truth.

but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

The simplest solution is always best.

Le cattive notizie comportano in qualche modo la garanzia della propria verità. Sono le buone notizie che hanno bisogno di conferma

But as those who knew the truth said nothing, and those who knew nothing said too much, when night came the city was in a state of extreme confusion.

The human mind, somehow, seems much more attracted by the false than by the true;

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger

My dear Watson, said [Sherlock Holmes], I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Homes

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.

I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance