I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or read more

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she read more

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing read more

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

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not read more

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.