Quotes About Validity

Both had valid points.

In fact, if your opponent thinks you're not worthy of debating, he isn't worthy of debating.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

There are certain guys that think they know hockey because they follow it on the Internet.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Folks always believe their own racism is the result of divine inspiration, incontestably valid.

Truth is merely an opinion that has survived

I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.

Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility.

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

it should; it's part and parcel of the machinery of quantum mechanics, and a number of clever experiments have demonstrated its validity in the real world.

Beijing will express total outrage at the [UN tribunal] ruling, refusing to acknowledge its validity. Vietnam and others will politely applaud a favorable Manila ruling, as it'll knock down Beijing a peg or two and thus, at least rhetorically, strengthen their own posture versus Beijing.

Don't think love has sizes. It either is or isn't

Yes, there have been many points of view on this topic, but since I'm the one with the vagina in question, let me say: the other points of view are bullshit.

The other night out at the bars, I learned that Nietzsche wrote on a typewriter. It is unbelievable to me, and I no longer feel that his philosophy has the same validity or aura of truth that it formerly did. No other detail of his life situating him so squarely in the modern age could have affected me as much as learning this. He typed Zarathustra? Goddamnit, the man had no more connection to the truth than a stenographer!

The reality is that most of the time, the more bizarre the trend, the more bogus the results.

There was never a better illustration of the validity of the Enlightenment dream – that order can emerge where nobody is in charge. The genome, now sequenced, stands as emphatic evidence that there can be order and complexity without any management.

unhappy with any presumption that all whites were racist, or that their own fears and day-to-day struggles were less valid.

America has always needed such transcendental notions to bind together its citizens, who have come from different cultures all over the world. And Americans are then driven to prove the universality of these ideas, and so their validity, by aggressively converting other cultures. In a religious context, this behavior would be recognized as missionary in its origins and effect.

When you hear the same story everywhere you look and listen, you assume it must be true.

there is nothing objectively that makes objectivity objectively true)

it does not have to be veridical. It has to be believed.