Ask yourself Quote by Timothy Ferriss

“When someone says something, don’t ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of.”

— Michael Lewis

“Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing…

— George Eliot

“Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?”

— Kamand Kojouri

“concentrate on knowing what is falsey, and then everything else you can consider truthy. Let’s look at some examples of using these falsey values”

— Eric Freeman

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

— Henry Flynt

“If a client asks you a question you don’t know how to answer, reply confidently that you do not have the facts to provide…

— Victor Cheng

“It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information…

— Agatha Christie

“Next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if…

— Richard Dawkins

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

— Amy Dickinson

“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false,…

— George Eliot

“It’s better to ask and receive the answer ‘No,’ then to assume the answer is going to be ‘No,’ and never ask.”

— Pauline Creeden