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Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I donít care if you print something nasty about me. If itís true, fine. I donít care. But just make sure it's the truth.

Tom Cruise

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

Clarence Darrow, Graduates Are Special

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

Anais Nin

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Ruth McKenney

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

Sophocles, Oedipus

I keep reading between the lies.

Goodman Ace

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

H. Norman Schwarzkoph

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight Eisenhower

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

George Santayana

Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time.

Baltasar Graci·n

Utter truth is essential...andto get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

Margaret Bourke-White

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Agatha Christie

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

Charles-Louis Philippe

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Ludwig Borne

Memorable Quotes

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

Truth is steadfast. (O ka oiaio he onipaa noia)

Hawaiian Proverb

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Lucretia Mott

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.

Ashanti Proverb

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

Alexandre Dumas

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Robert Lewis Stevenson

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of the story.

Walter Cronkite

Truth is from before creation. (Mai ka po mai ka oiaio)

Hawaiian Proverb

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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Joan of Arc

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later to be found out.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Albert Schweitzer

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it, fragment by fragment.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
The naked truth is better than the best-dressed lie.
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

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