Quotes About Truth

Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards!

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it's any use in lighting you to the truth. This woman is innocent and this woman has to be cleared, and it's up to you to do it. Name your figure! My professional charges are upon a fixed scale, I do not vary them, save when I remit them altogether.

Kalau kausingkirkan semua yang mustahil, apa pun yang tersisa, betapapun mustahilnya, adalah kebenaran.

It is not what we know, but what we can prove.

We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.

what I know is unofficial, what [the inspector] knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.

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. When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth.

I am sure that it is the truth.

Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence," I remarked. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged.

and meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that the light of truth is breaking through

The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (p. 261).

Apparently the age of romance was not dead, and there was common ground upon which the wildest imaginings of the novelist could meet the actual scientific investigations of the searcher for truth.

There is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being

Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth - Sherlock Holmes

Some facts should be suppressed, or at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Eliminato l'impossibile ció che resta, per improbabile che sia, deve essere la veritá

I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answered, laughing.

straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha.

Lie number one," said the old man; "I never saw either of them until two months ago, and I have never been in Africa in my life, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Busybody Holmes!" "What he says is true," said Carruthers.