Life Quotes... Truth

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
                                                Arthur Conan Doyle

“The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts - the less you know, the hotter you get.”
                                                Bertrand Russell

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
                                                George Bernard Shaw

“Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.”
                                                Georges Braque

“Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.”
                                                Han Suyin

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

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.”
                                                John Locke

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
                                                Mark Twain

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
                                                Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.”
                                                Oscar Wilde

“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
                                                Pearl Bailey

“We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.”
                                                R. Buckminster Fuller

“Truth burns up error.”
                                                Sojourner Truth

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
                                                Thomas Jefferson

“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.”
                                                William Osler

“Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
                                                Winston Churchill

“Truth came to market and could not be sold; we buy lies with ready cash.”

”Bitter truth is better than sweet falsehood. ”

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