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Truth Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
- Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
- It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen…
- When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
- Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
- It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
- Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
- When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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