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.

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

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.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded 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?

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.