Agatha Christie - Truth Quotes

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To the scientific mind, truth comes first. Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

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I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation. The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression.

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I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

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Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it—often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

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'Truth of it is,' said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, 'when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they're wrong you forget it.'

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Me, I am convinced it is the truth, said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.

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Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition—and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do—clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth—the naked shining truth.

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When you find that people are not telling you the truth—look out!

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"You know that in all tombs there is always a false door?"
Renisenb stared. "Yes, of course."
"Well, people are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is a bare rock … And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself."

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Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don't you? Of course I believe in the truth, said Rhoda, staring. Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven't thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one's illusions. I'd rather have it all the same. said Rhoda. So would I. But I don't know that we're wise. Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

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