Being true Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than…

— Alfred North Whitehead

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done. It…

— Barack Obama

“Propositions become either pure or impure, not true or false.”

— Mark Lilla

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This…

— C.S. Lewis

“You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time; one is…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Throughout the narrative you will find many statements that are obviously nonsensical and quite at variance with common sense. For the most part these…

— Robert Gilmore

“The majority of important things cannot be said outright, they cannot be made explicit. They can only be implied.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“For some, reassessing concepts about truth and reality can be a scary proposition.”

— Mark Ireland