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Quotes About Validity

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
~ David Hume
It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.
~ Alistair Begg
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.
~ Charles Sumner
Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.
~ Simon Blackburn
Similarly, if you're trying to prove something mathematically, it's possible that no proof exists.
~ Simon Singh
Scientific proof is inevitably fickle and shoddy. On the other hand mathematical proof is absolute and devoid of doubt.
~ Simon Singh
nonsense can also be real
~ Siri Hustvedt
I think you're right.
~ Meg Cabot
They didn't have to be true to be good.
~ Mercedes Lackey
there was no such thing as objective truth and if you think something's good because it speaks to you it is
~ Bernadine evaristo
They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.
~ Bernard Wolfe
Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid.
~ Bertrand Russell
There is no reason, therefore, so far as I am able to perceive, to deny the ultimate and absolute philosophical validity of a theory of geometry which regards space as composed of points, and not as a mere assemblage of relations between non-spatial terms.
~ Bertrand Russell
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument.
~ Bertrand Russell
If any one asks: 'Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses?' we can only answer by appealing to our principle. In fact, the truth of the principle is impossible to doubt, and its obviousness is so great that at first sight it seems almost trivial. Such principles, however, are not trivial to the philosopher, for they show that we may have indubitable knowledge which is in no way derived from objects of sense. The
~ Bertrand Russell
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.
~ Jose Canseco
Judgment has done exactly what we asked it to do. It is important to see its validity in the world in order to release it.
~ Story Waters
To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
~ Stuart Sutherland
not all quotes on the internet are real
~ Sun Tzu
Thoughts are often false. A feeling's always real. Not true, just real
~ Susan Choi
The charade of the normal family" is especially damaging to a child because it forces him to deny the validity of his own feelings and perceptions.
~ Susan Forward
Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...
~ Susan Hill
Your version of reality is as good as anybody's.
~ Susan Scott