#ruth

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years. ↗

— David Blaine

#i #many #my own #own #reflect

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#all things #as far as #doubt #far #least

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable. ↗

— Selma Blair

#get #i #kind #me #never

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#bitter #find #flatters #greedily #lie

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#certainty #confuse #different #different things #entirely

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#like #memory #nails #our #sentences

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. ↗

— William Blake

#defending #i #know #sake #tell

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder. ↗

— Art Blakey

#eventually #ever #grinds #powder #truth

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

— Mark Van Doren

#humor #man #more #nothing #sense

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#how #however #i #impossible #improbable