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Quotes About Validity

You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
~ Saint Augustine
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
~ Fernand Leger
What is not in nature can never be true.
~ Voltaire
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
~ David Foster Wallace
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
~ Francis Bacon
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
~ Jim Lehrer
Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!
~ Rudolf Steiner
Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.
~ Austin O'Malley
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
~ William James
Every single fact I state in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the absolute and irrefutable truth...Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying.
~ Dave Kopel
Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
~ Jack London
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
~ Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
~ Barbra Streisand
Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.
~ Catherine Wilson
Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
~ David Brin
Truth is that which cannot be proved false.
~ Dick Morris
Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.
~ Gregory Bateson
I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane
~ Ian C. Esslemont
That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.
~ Ian Gardner
Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
~ Isaac Watts