Quotes About Validity

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

It was still inchoate, something missing. Something that should be there was appealing to the nonvalidity of absence. And that missing element was rapping on the glass window separating presence and absence. I could make out its wordless cry.

When it came down to it, though, could anything be completely correct, or completely incorrect? We lived in a world where rain might fall thirty percent, or seventy percent, of the time. Truth was probably no different. There could be thirty percent or seventy percent truth.

Radical selfcare is what's going to get us through this kind of endlessly inane questioning of the validity of our existence, through menopause, and through all of the many other changes that are still yet to come.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

W]e must not let it enter our minds that there may be no validity in argument. On the contrary we should recognize that we ourselves are still intellectual invalids; but that we must brace ourselves and do our best to become healthy... No greater misfortune could happen to anyone than that of developing a dislike for argument.

Sometimes quotes you find on the internet are fake.

absurdity of the claims so arrogantly set up by the masters, over beings designed by God to be as free as kings; and at the perfect stupidity of the slave, in admitting for one moment the validity of these claims.

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

Quod erat demonstrandum

The truth is your servant, not your master. What is the truth, anyway? Does any of us really know what's true? And is truth an absolute? Can't things be sort of true? A little bit true? True in a deeper sense? True enough for military work? True for me, not for you? All too true?

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.

What I tell you three times is true.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Truth is in things, and not in words.