#rut

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contrary #earnest #error #more #often

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#however #impossible #improbable #maxim #mine

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#however #impossible #improbable #must #remains

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts. ↗

— David Duchovny

#characters #even #hurts #love #people

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#truth #beauty

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. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#creative #each #fictional #i #irritant

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. ↗

— David Duke

#black #every #hundred #man #truth

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#aggression #anecdotal #brave #broad #brutal

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#did #give #hell #i #just

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. ↗

— Will Durant

#begins #broken #custom #every #minority