True Or False Quotes

• Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Care, Letters, Written

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• True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Men, Important

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.694, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

  Mason Cooley

  Aphorism, Flats

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Belief, Stability, Statesmen

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• Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.

  John Lubbock

  Beautiful, Three, Answers

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• Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be denominated true or false glory, accordingly as the ends to which it is directed are beneficial or mischievous, just or unjust objects of pursuit; but it is false, because it exalts that which ought to be abased, and criminal, because it encroaches on the prerogative of God.

  William Wilberforce

  Guilt, Criminals, Unjust

  William Wilberforce (1820). “Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...: Contrasted with Real Christianity ...”, p.135

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• I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

  Errol Morris

  Believe, Thinking, Photograph

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Please Me, Deceit

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.58

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• The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verification… we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which the statement is true or false.

  Moritz Schlick

  Method, Knows, Conditions

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• Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.

  Halldór Laxness

  Lying, People, Facts

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

  Robert Collier

  Believe, Affirmation, Being True

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Secret of Power”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Teaching, Giving

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• Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, Good Man, Christianity

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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• The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

  Richard Holloway

  Speak, Myth, Stills

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• Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'

  Barry Long

  Truth, Agreement, Needs

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1983.

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• All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Truth, Errors, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.774, Library of Alexandria

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• Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sincerity, Martyr, Correctness

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.774, Library of Alexandria

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• The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Differences, Effectiveness

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.

  Errol Morris

  Horse, Elements, Cows

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Assumption, Argument

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).

  David Bohm

  Truth, Science, Irrelevance

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.42, Routledge

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• Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.

  Donald Davidson

  Thinking, Events, Would Be

  Donald Davidson (2009). “Truth and Predication”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad about the leaders of the Church, whether true or false, we tend to impair their influence and their usefulness and are thus working against the Lord and his cause.' ... The Holy Ghost will not guide or confirm criticism of the Lord's anointed, or of Church leaders, local or general. This reality should be part of the spiritual evaluation that LDS readers and viewers apply to those things written about our history and those who made it.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Reality, Lds

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• The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Men, Doctrine

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  Harold Pinter

  Real, True And False, Literature

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008”, p.218, Faber & Faber

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