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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? (Arthur Conan Doyle)[][]
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Arthur Conan Doyle)[][]
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth. (Richard Whately)[][]
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. (Mark Twain)[][]
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. (Tacitus)[][]
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. (Dagobert D. Runes)[][]
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. (Abraham Lincoln)[][]
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. (Samuel Johnson)[][]
There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one. (Hui-Neng)[][]
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. (Francis Bacon)[][]
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.)[][]
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. (Johann Von Goethe)[][]
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time." (Aulus Gellius)[][]
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[][]
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. (Clarence S. Darrow)[][]
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. (Thomas Cooper)[][]
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. (Samuel T. Coleridge)[][]
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. (Winston Churchill)[][]
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. (Lord Chesterfield)[][]
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton)[][]
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