Belief Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

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

“A classical concept in Hinduism has been that a true proposition has to be consistent with sruti, yukti (reason/logic) and anubhava.”

— Rajiv Malhotra

I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may…

— Christopher Hitchens

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.

— Gene Perret

I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.

— George Carlin

Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the…

— John Locke

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

— Milton Friedman

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Alfred North Whitehead