Quotes About Validity

If there is cheesy packaging around a universal truth, does that make the universal truth inside any less valid?

Are you trivializing the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

In Sternin's judgment, all of this analysis was "TBU"—true but useless.

You hear it, too?" Walter asked. "Of course I do," she snapped. "It's real!

Everything exists, real or unreal. The truth is only a matter of perspective.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

Just because I'm painfully honest does not mean I'm right.

No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

It has the added advantage of being true.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

With his rakehell profile and impudent blue eyes, this was a statement of highly questionable validity, but she refrained from taking issue with it.

The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . . . Nature knows no ethics. There is no right and wrong in nature; the controlling realities are power and fertility.

We very often express in a categorical form a judgment of which we do not feel assured, we even lay stress on its absolute validity. We want to see what opposition it will arouse, and this can be achieved only by stating our assumption not as a tentative suggestion, which no one will consider, but as an irrefutable, all-important truth. The greater the value of the assumption has for us, the more carefully do we conceal any suggestion of its improbability.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

The opinions of a convenience sample... may not represent all users.

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.