The basic principles of logic dictate that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time... and that a statement must be either true or false... Lucy is lying, or she is crazy, or she is telling the truth. She can't be some combination, and she can't be none of those things... The laws of logic dictate that she must be one of them... Notice how practical common sense about the suposed impossibility of other worlds doesn't come into the equation.
- Sarah Arthur
Sentences are not as such either true or false.
- J L Austin
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
- Augusto Roa Bastos
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?"...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.
- Charles M Schulz
It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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
Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.
- Victor Hugo
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
- Victor Hugo
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
He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily true' or 'false', but as 'academic' or practical', 'outworn' or 'contemporary', 'conventional' or 'ruthless'. Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous--that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.
- C S Lewis
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
You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
- Nora Roberts
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
- Joseph Roux
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
- Marjane Satrapi
- Sarah Arthur
Sentences are not as such either true or false.
- J L Austin
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
- Augusto Roa Bastos
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?"...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.
- Charles M Schulz
It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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
Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.
- Victor Hugo
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
- Victor Hugo
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
He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily true' or 'false', but as 'academic' or practical', 'outworn' or 'contemporary', 'conventional' or 'ruthless'. Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous--that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.
- C S Lewis
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
You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
- Nora Roberts
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
- Joseph Roux
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
- Marjane Satrapi
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