#rue

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#anyone #caught #chaotic #concern #deny

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#certain #essence #foolish #i #just

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. ↗

— Bill Gates

#expectations #first-class #form #people #true

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#consequence #cruelty #foe #friend #her

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#babies #false #grieve #loss #love

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#breathless #cannot #element #excited #grasp

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#statesman #take #true #who #willing

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#certain #equally #every #exclusive #fault

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#enough #know #really #said #things

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ↗

— David Storey

#another #essence #friendship #lapses #little