“The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102)” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
“Again, it was proposed that we should go up the mountains and make our camps there.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“What do you have to offer; what is your “value added proposition”?” — Karen Budzinski Copy Share Image
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god;… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That,… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
“Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer,… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
“I’m talking about a little proposition for us both to get something we really, really want. I give a little, and you… — Katie Ashley Copy Share Image
A male inmate promised a female prison guard, If you help me escape, I'll marry you. This is an example of using… — Green Monk Copy Share Image
What is your Unique Selling Proposition? What makes you different than your competitors? Wrap your advertising message around that USP and communicate… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“Second, does your value proposition make or reinforce an economic case? Does it have economic impact? Does it sound like your product… — Steven Gary Blank Copy Share Image
I personally think the best ideas for TV shows - at least comedies - are very low-fi ideas. High concepts often sell… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To distract himself, he formulated a proposition. A philosophical proposition? Maybe, but tending towards "weak thought"--exhausted thought, in fact. He even gave… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
“I am going to make you what you may perhaps consider rather a singular proposition. It is this, that if you don’t… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data. — Gary Kovacs Copy Share Image
I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels. — John Irving Copy Share Image
