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Quotes About Validity

Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to make them. I need to be very clear, in my own mind.
~ Margaret Atwood
The tulip is not a reason for disbelief in the hanged man, or vice versa. Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to make them. I need to be very clear, in my own mind. I
~ Margaret Atwood
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
~ Manfred Eigen
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.
~ Jose Arguelles
When is a legend legend? Why is a myth a myth? How old and discussed must a fact be for it to be relegated to the category Fairy-tale? And why do certain facts remain incontrovertible while others lose their validity to assume a shabby, unstable character?
~ Anne McCaffrey
Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The sunrise shell has the eternal validity of all beautiful and fleeting things.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Reality is the best reassurance of all.
~ Seth Godin
Based on who they are and what they want and what they know, everyone is right. Every time.
~ Seth Godin
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Reality trumps rationality.
~ Derek R. Audette
Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.
~ Robertson Davies
TMS patients cope only too well in reality; it is their unconscious minds that are cowardly. The best evidence of the validity of this concept is the fact that patients are able to stop the process simply by learning about it.
~ John E. Sarno
Just because you don't believe in something does not mean that it's not true.
~ John Garner
Nothing is real unless it is observed
~ John Gribbin
There is no other proof.
~ John Guy
Finally, when historians contest interpretations of the past among themselves, they're liberating it in yet another sense: from the possibility that there can be only a single valid explanation of what happened.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
I don't say it was likely -- I only say it is true.
~ Elizabeth Inchbald
Not everything that makes deductive sense may be true.b But if it doesn't fit into a syllogism, Aristotle concluded, then don't bother asking if it's true or not.
~ Arthur Herman
Truth is in things, not in people, he remembered. But it needs us to be manifest.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.
~ Paul Rust
At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.
~ Richie Sambora
If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
~ Jimmy Wales