Quotes About Validity

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

Just because it never happened doesn't mean it isn't true.

if you don't write it down—" "Then it never happened.

that no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.

The pseudo- and parasciences are nothing less, in fact, than small pools of knowledge that are not connected to the large network of science. They are valid only in their own network.)

Born to Rebel: Birth Order Family Dynamics and Creative Lives, a book that contained overwhelming statistical evidence that birth order theory does have credence and validity.

Kernighan and Plauger noted that "a comment is of zero (or negative) value if it is wrong.

I don't mean to imply that I value the life of a fish or a bird the same way I value a human life, but their presence in the world has as much validity as does our presence. Perhaps more: they were here first; they are foundational to us. They take only what they need. They are compatible with the life around them.

An historical truth is only true once

Being aware that we may be wrong is different from claiming that it is senseless to speak of right and wrong. Recognizing diversity and taking seriously ideas that diverge from our own is different from claiming that all ideas are equally worthy. Knowing that a given judgment is born within a complex cultural context and is related to many others does not necessarily imply that we are unable to recognize it is wrong.

Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.

You can tell when something is right because most things are just plain wrong.

There you go; seems to me you're right!

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

If they want to kill us so desperately, then surely we are worthwhile, valid, of importance to the world.

The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .

'For example' is not proof.

When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.

reality wasn't interested in anybody's opinion.