Quotes About Truth

In questo nostro mondo non conta quel che si fa», disse amaramente il mio amico. «Importa più quel che si riesce a far credere alla gene di aver fatto. Ma lasciamo stare.»

My dear Watson, said he, 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. 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.

Subestimarse es algo tan alejado de la verdad como exagerar las propias facultades.

Es preferible la verdad, cualquiera que sea, a una duda indefinida.

scene. "Ask what you like, Mr. Holmes," said he eagerly. "It is a bad thing to speak of, but I will answer you the truth." "Tell me about last night." "Well, Mr. Holmes, I supped there, as the vicar has said, and my elder brother George proposed a game of whist afterwards. We sat down about nine o'clock. It was a quarter-past ten when I moved to go. I left them all round the table, as merry as could be." "Who let you out?

Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

that the full facts have never been revealed to the general

Die Welt ist voller offensichtlicher Dinge, die niemand jemals beobachtet.

It is, however, when the human soul is ploughed and harrowed by suffering that the seeds of truth may be planted

With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails.

You will not apply my precept, he said, shaking his head. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? We know that he did not come through the door, the window, or the chimney. We also know that he could not have been concealed in the room, as there is no concealment possible. When, then, did he come? Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four

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.

Data! data! data! he cried impatiently. I can't make bricks without clay.

Honesty and Poetry are the same thing

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Whatever remains, However improbable

Una vieja máxima mía dice que, cuando has eliminado lo imposible, lo que queda, por muy improbable que parezca, tiene que ser la verdad.

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.

No good can ever come of falsehood

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answered, laughing.

The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet? "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Este o greÈ™eal? capital? s? emiÈ›i teorii înainte de a avea informaÈ›ii. F?r? s?-È›i dai seama, începi s? distorsionezi faptele ca s? se potriveasc? cu teoriile, în loc ca teoriile s? se potriveasc? cu faptele.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.