#tru

The law is agnostic about truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#agnostic #law #truth

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth. ↗

— Anita Desai

#aim #any #avoid #fantasy #i

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. ↗

— Anita Desai

#i #own #rigidly #story #structure

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

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#doubt #first #i #knew #never

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ↗

— John Dewey

#failures #his #instructive #learns #much

Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops. ↗

— John Blair

#acts #alone #black #block #commented

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#painful #something #true #very #written