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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

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

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Truth is always a delusion.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

But now 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.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.