Quotes About Validity

From Obama's perspective, truth was what he said it was. The reason he despised Fox News, the nation's highest-rated cable news channel, was that Fox alone among the news networks evaluated the validity of the White House narrative. In fact, on more than a few occasions, Benghazi included, Fox's reporting showed the administration's account of events to be pure hogwash. That rankled, and a wounded Obama struck back.

I call you metaphysicians because you reason metaphysically, Ernest went on. Your method of reasoning is the opposite to that of science. There is no validity to your conclusions. You can prove everything and nothing, and no two of you can agree upon anything. Each of you goes into his own consciousness to explain himself and the universe. As well may you lift yourselves by your own bootstraps as to explain consciousness by consciousness.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

She was telling the truth, but that didn't mean she was right.

I want my daughter to learn that not everything in this world is determined by how often she hears it or how much she wants it to be true or how many other people are looking. Somewhere in there, for a thing to count as real, there has got to be some actual bloody reality.

I'm an American for marriage equality. I believe that love comes in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. So whether you're LGBT or straight, your love is valid, beautiful, and an incredible gift.

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.

All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.

Objective truths apply to all people, places, and things, as well as all animals, vegetables, and minerals. Some of these truths apply across all of space and time. They are true even when you don't believe in them.

Offer, a transplanted Israeli who came to Oxford after serving as a soldier in the 1967 war, said that the effectiveness of an ideology is measured by the amount of coercion it takes to keep a ruling elite in power. Reality, when it does not conform to the reigning ideology, he said, has to be "forcibly aligned." The amount of coercion needed to make society adhere to the model is "a rough measure of the model's validity.

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

What can be asserted without proof can be dissmissed without proof.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. This is even more true when the "evidence" eventually offered is so shoddy and self-interested.

words are only as valid as the mind that chooses them, so that of essence all prose is a form of deception.

I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed.

Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false.

La ilegitimidad es algo de lo que tenemos que hablar en términos de no tenerla»

I had always believed logic was a universal weapon, and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed. Further, since I had been with my master I had become aware, and was to become even more aware in the days that followed, that logic could be especially useful when you entered it but then left it.