Quotes About Validity

To belittle romance fiction is to belittle women. To read romance fiction is to confront the strength of women, the variety of their experience, and the validity of their aspirations and achievements.

Wir haben nichts mehr, an das wir nicht glauben könnten. Mathematisch folgt daraus, dass wir an alles glauben. Alles gleich gültig.

clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.

Als ik iets heb geleerd in Unterleuten, dan is het wel dat ieder mens in een eigen universum leeft, waarin hij van 's ochtends vroeg tot 's avonds laat gelijk heeft.

Proving something right wasn't the same as proving the opposite wrong.

True information does good.

Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

Just because someone makes an inappropriate comment does not make it true!

The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

That is a fart without wind....." in reference to when you can't back up what you say. very funny.

Ninguna cosa es más lejos de la verdad que la vulgar opinión. Nunca alegre vivirás, si por voluntad de muchos te riges. Porque éstas son conclusiones verdaderas, que cualquier cosa que el vulgo piensas, es vanidad; lo que habla, falsedad; lo que reprueba es bondad; lo que aprueba, maldad.

Memory itself is a political event. Social structures are often so powerful that they actually format memory into accepted boundaries, denying the validity of experiences outside the parameters of accepted social interpretations and distorting and fragmenting experience. Consequently, creating spaces for re-memory may be a profoundly liberating and energizing experience.

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others.

When a custom is actually proved to exist, the next enquiry is into the legality of it; for if it is not a good custom it ought to be no longer used.

As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Se debe tener confianza en uno mismo y esa confianza debe estar basada en la realidad" (Bobby Fischer)

y por eso todos los inquisidores del mundo queman los libros en vano, porque cuando un libro comunica algo válido, su ritmo silencioso persiste incluso mientras lo devoran las llamas, y es que un verdadero libro siempre indica algún camino nuevo que conduce más allá de sí mismo.

los verdaderos pensamientos provienen del exterior, (...) por eso todos los inquisidores del mundo queman los libros en vano, porque cuando un libro comunica algo válido, su ritmo silencioso persiste incluso mientras lo devoran las llamas, y es que un verdadero libro siempre indica algún camino nuevo que conduce más allá de sí mismo.

All beliefs are relative. All models are just functional or dysfunctional toward certain ends.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

It was the woman his finest instincts had needed to make them valid; the woman who not only gave to him, but to whom he could give; the woman of memory, of desire, of youth, of restlessness, of completion. A dream. And here, against the softspeaking bubbling water, a reality.