Quotes About Truth

It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.

Men have courage-one knows that...but they are more easily deceived than women.

What a newspaper prints is news – but not always truth!

Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try. (Edward Ferrier)

But all the same, it is true what I say--artificial conditions bring about their natural reaction.

É il cervello, le piccole cellule grigie» si batté una mano sulla fronte, «la cosa su cui bisogna basarsi. I sensi inducono in errore. Bisogna cercare la verità dal di dentro, non dal di fuori.»

Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.

If thing is as clear as daylight, mistrust it! someone has made it so!

Have you ever reflected, Madame, on the enormous part that Hearsay plays in life. "Mr. A said," "Mrs. B. told us." "Miss C. explained why –" and so on. And if the known facts seem to fit with what we have been told, then we never question them. There are so many things that do not concern us, and so we do not bother to uncover the actual facts.

And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus, Hercule Poirot realized that this artificially set scene had a point of reality...

Well, people are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is bare rock... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself.

The accepted version of certain facts is not necessarily the true one.

The police, they're seemingly so frank, and they tell you nothing.

A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty," remarked Hercule Poirot.

A woman would know all right about her own husband.

It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.

Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded--face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains--the act was hers--not another.

Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

Ma come sapete, la natura umana è quella che è..

Life is only one of the Great Illusions.

Let me tell you this, Hastings. She would never forgive me if I let Alfred Inglethorp, her husband, be arrested now—when a word from me could save him!

Looks a bit fishy to me," said Japp. "He actually had a blowpipe, and look at his manner. All to pieces." "That is the severity of your official demeanor, my good Japp." "There's nothing for anyone to be afraid of if they're only telling the truth," said the Scotland Yard man austerely. Poirot looked at him pityingly. "In verity, I believe that you yourself honestly believe that.

Lies--and again lies--it amazes me, the amount of lies we had told to us this morning." "There are more still to discover," said Poirot cheerfully.

But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again.