#tru

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#cannot #date #good #late #moral

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#love #rare #rarer #true #true friendship

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended. ↗

— Charles Vest

#being #being done #damage #done #expended

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#credit #driver #executive #first-rate #more

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#ought #truth #unless

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Harold Ford

#been #being #choice #could #further

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he. ↗

— Plato

#love #philosophy #truth #virtue #beauty

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing. ↗

— Luke Ford

#autistic #days #growing #kids #spectrum

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal. ↗

— Brad Thor

#along #be different #being #being different #books

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#else #hangs #information #itself #nothing