Being true Quote by 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

[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.

— 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

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.…

— Ivanka Trump

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

— Jane Fonda

Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the…

— Michel de Montaigne

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

— Lee Friedlander

“Fact is much more fascinating than fiction.”

— Deana J. Driver

Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

— Virginia Woolf

There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not…

— Alistair MacLeod

The truth is more important than the facts.

— Frank Lloyd Wright