Quotes About Validity

The validity of a seal is not dependent upon the time that the conditions of the covenant accompanying it are met. Like the seal of a document, the seal of circumcision could be applied long before recipients of promised and signified blessings met the conditions of the covenant. The seal was simply the visible pledge of God that when the conditions of his covenant were met, the blessings he promised would apply (cf. Rom. 4:11).

Crank theories always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

Today, religious fanatics and scientific rejectionists flourish under the protective wing of postmodernism, claiming that theirs is just one more valid viewpoint—a form of mental aikido (using the opponent's strength against him).

Az embernek csak ott lehet igaza, ahol éppen található.

Every person has a right to their opinion, but no one has a right to be wrong in their facts.

It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.

The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.

It is being stated that Modi was a minor at the time of his marriage, which is a big lie. There is evidence to prove that when he got married, he was not a minor but had grown up.

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

The way of objective reflection makes the subject accidental, and thereby transforms existence into something indifferent, something vanishing. Away from the subject the objective way of reflection leads to the objective truth, and while the subject and his subjectivity become indifferent, the truth also becomes indifferent, and this indifference is precisely its objective validity; for all interest, like all decisiveness, is rooted in subjectivity

The existentialists are not irrationalists in the sense that they deny the validity of logical argument and scientific reasoning. They simply question the ability of such reasoning to access the deep personal convictions that guide our lives.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

Even things that are true can be proved.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

That a drug can restructure the world into something like an objective reality is a claim with as little validity as the objective reality itself. I think what I said at the time was that I had no more reason to place my confidence in a drugged state of mind than in a sober one.

This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we?

So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression "garbage in, garbage out.

Nothing is invalid. Except bullying, invalidation and pineapple pizza.

Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

It is forbidden to tell anything that has no foundation.