Arthur Conan Doyle on truth and lies

Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context

• Beauty

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (1600–1), Act I, scene iii.In context

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill1874–1965