Quotes by True Or False If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance. A.J. Ayer true-or-falseatheismreligion Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. Augusto Roa Bastos true-or-falsecareletters I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. Ben Jonson true-or-falsenewsgiving A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend? Bill Jay depictiontrue-or-falsephotography 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 true-or-falsegood-manyears 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 true-or-falseapathycare Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures. Donald Davidson true-or-falseeventsthinking 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 true-or-falsehorseelements 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 true-or-falsebelievethinking 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 true-or-falseassumptionbelieve 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 true-or-falsewatchestelevision The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. George Bernard Shaw stabilitytrue-or-falsebelief 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 true-or-falselyingpeople 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 true-and-falsetrue-or-falsereal Sentences are not as such either true or false. J. L. Austin austintrue-or-falsefake-people Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. John Dryden true-or-falsepoliticalkings 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 true-or-falsethreebeautiful The reporting is fake. Look, look...You know what it is? Here's the thing. The public isn't - you know, they read newspapers, they see television, they watch. They don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.But I'm involved. So I know when you're telling the truth or when you're not. I just see many, many untruthful things. Kevin Drum true-or-falsefakewatches Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves. Marjane Satrapi true-or-falsetalesbeing-true Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat. Mason Cooley aphorismflatstrue-or-false12»
