Tautology Truth Quotes & Sayings

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement ... — Karl Popper

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days. — William Clay Ford Jr.

For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at. — Ken Follett

And when the governess had left, he would slip out of his own room and peer at her door until her light was extinguished at last, before he returned to bed to stew anew in lust and yearning.
A habit that he'd kept to this day, whenever they happened to be under the same roof.
Her light turned off. He sighed. How long would he keep at this? Soon he would be twenty-seven. Did he still plan to stand in a dark passage in the middle of the night and gaze upon her door when he was thirty-seven? Forty-seven? Ninetyseven? — Sherry Thomas

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand. — Dennis Lehane

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally abstract tautology. We can sometimes say that if such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such must follow absolutely. But the truth about what can be perceived or arrived at by induction from perception is something else again. — Gregory Bateson