Quotes About Validity

Whatever the validity of that claim, there is no doubt that it is among the greatest American novels, rich in allegory and symbolism, capable of being appreciated on many different levels; a book of profound depths and sonorities that continue to resonate in the mind long after one has put it down.

Rothmore rasped, Do you think an IQ is something real, like a nose? It's a ...number dreamed up by...psychologists, and all it proves is that farmers aren't as smart as psychologists. If the farmers had enough time to wast to make up an IQ system, the psychologists would all come out morons and the farmers geniuses.

The internet is touted as a resource of unprecedented power when it comes to checking the validity of information, yet it seems it has never been easier for lies and misinformation to wear the veil of truth and fact

Reason vs. belief. Any word, system, or theory should be evaluated solely on the basis of whether it accurately describes the world. The goal is to explain what is the case, not what people wish were the case, think is the case, or believe with all their heart is the case. Belief in the existence of a proposition does not establish its validity. F

Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.

Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

You can't argue with the truth.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can't argue with facts. You're not entitled to your own facts.

You are unbelievable at times." "Many people have thought so," Shem answered dryly, "but despite unbelief, I still exist.

the truth was not, despite popular opinion, objective. "Your truth and my truth are not necessarily the same thing, and yet neither is false.

There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

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3. IS THE BOOK TRUE, IN WHOLE OR PART?

we can have a minute's silence.' 'That won't be necessary.' 'Of course not. It's only necessary when one has nothing valid to say. Silence makes even idiots seem wise for a minute.