How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
—Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
—Unknown
When in doubt tell the truth.
—Mark Twain
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
—Samuel Goldwyn
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
—Marcus Aurelius
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
—Niels Bohr
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
—Theodor W. Adorno
It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.
—Colleen Hoover in Confess
Truth has a power of its own.… A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think.
—Howard Zinn
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
—Alfred North Whitehead
Who ever said that doctors are truthful or even intelligent? You're getting a lot if they know their profession. Don't ask any more from them. They're only human, after all.
—Marjorie Karmel
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
—Umberto Eco
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it; it is by nature self-erasing; you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.
—E. L. Doctorow
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
—Tom Stoppard