J. L. Austin Quotes

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.

Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity.

Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions.

Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

Just because someone says something, whether it's at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can't always assume that's factual. That's insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

Does truth have a moral?

Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.

If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful thinking, or denial, but if they make that claim, it's either true or false! And you can assess that, regardless of whether there's an omniscient narrator, or an unreliable narrator, or it's shot in vérité, or it's manipulated, it's agitprop, whatever! It makes no difference! It's a style!

History is not history unless it is the truth.

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

The President Donald Trump has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.

Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.