True Or False Quotes

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Belief, Stability, Statesmen

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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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• Christianity, Christ, heaven, hell, the judgment, sin, holiness, God,--these, and whether they be true, or false, and our personal relations to them, whether they be right or wrong, are things to know about, not to be doubting or guessing about.

  Herrick Johnson

  Heaven, Doubt, Guessing

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.

  Donald Trump

  Watches, Television, Newspapers

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth, Eggs, Battle

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• Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Order, Measurement, Operations

  Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

  John Tillotson

  Wise, Men, Religion

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.210

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• Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Business, Children

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• Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Apathy, Care, Subjects

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• Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Differences, Evil, Essentials

  Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2”, p.335, Hackett Publishing

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• Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Simple, Mind Love

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• But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Past, Sacred

  Essays Circles (p. 297)

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• To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

  Carl L. Becker

  Philosophy, Rights, Independence

  Carl L. Becker (2013). “Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas”, p.188, Vintage

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• Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Passion, Men, Feelings

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• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.141, Library of America

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• An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Marriage, Wedding, Husband

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

  Nora Roberts

  Multiple Choice, Choices, Questions And Answers

  Nora Roberts (2008). “Tribute”, p.235, Penguin

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• That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Loss, Color, Giving

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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