Truth - Magna est veritas?

There is Truth and There is What We Do To It

Magna est veritas et prævalebit ("The truth is great and it shall prevail").

Esdras 4:41

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Sign of Four*

As lofty as these seem, equally notable historical figures have a slightly different take, perhaps tempered by reality, on the truth.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there are pains taken to bring it to light.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

MARK TWAIN, Mark Twain's Notebooks

What people believe prevails over the truth.

SOPHOCLES, The Sons of Aleus [fragment]

Let’s add a few more, less articulate, more earthy, and equally accurate.

Truth is great but there are many working hard toward her demise.

Truth  is great, is quotable, is sobering, is enlightening and celebrated – only when you agree with it.

Truth may be hard to kill, but it can be ignored, twisted, tormented, corrupted, and sedated.

There are many truths presented about how mankind should live, but they have been corrupted by the Utopians.  We never ask our dog to be other than a dog, but we do ask ourselves to behave as a species it is not.

*Some of the quotes herein can be found at  http://www.notable-quotes.com/t/truth_quotes.html#TcWHiUBTyPxoIgVK.99