“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
More from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Truth
“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”
“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.”
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.”
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
Others on Truth
Cervantes
8 quotes“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
Aesop
7 quotes“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“The innocent must not suffer.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tr...”
Lord Byron
6 quotes“And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.”
Martin Luther King
6 quotes“In the end, what will hurt us the most is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”