“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“There are very few human truths and infinite variations on them.” ~A. S. Byatt

“To thine own self be true.” ~Shakespeare (Hamlet)

“Their is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.” ~William James

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ~Winston Churchill

“It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' And so it goes away. Puzzling.” ~Robert M. Pirsig

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” ~John 8:32

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” ~Aldous Huxley

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and realistic.” ~John F. Kennedy

“The truth must dazzle gradually
  Or every man be blind.”
~Emily Dickinson

“I never gave them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.” ~Harry S. Truman

“I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable—that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.” ~Bertrand Russell

“Fact is not to be gainsaid; one may put it this way, that fact is a Tribune of the People with no legislative right, but only the right of veto. Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.” ~Robert Grave

“The truth is more important than the facts.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright

“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.” ~Pope John Paul II

“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.” ~Peter Bechmann

“For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is free to combat it.” ~Thomas Jefferson

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” ~Henry David Thoreau

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” ~Oscar Wilde

“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world today is done by children.” ~Oliver W. Holmes

“If you understand or if you don't
If you believe or if you doubt
There's a universal justice
And the eyes of truth
Are always watching you.”
~Enigma

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