Quotes About Validity

You are shifting from … … the past occurring as a series of events that "really happened" and are "the" truth … … to … … the past occurring as a series of interpretations you've made about events that happened, all of which are valid and none of which represent "the" truth.

None of this depressed Picasso, nor yet Kahnweiler: there is a kind of abuse that is a guarantee of excellence and almost of success, for surely people do not utter such shrill and vehement protests unless some Freudian resistance is at work—unless at some level they are aware of the validity of what they see.

Sometimes it is used to mean the mere copying of a mannerism, direct theft, and sometimes it hovers ambiguously over a wide area; but there is a strong case for the assertion that no man can be influenced—influenced to the degree of producing a valid work of art and not a mere pastiche—by anything that is not at least latent in his mind.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

You couldn't make up something that looked so right.

Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.

Each of us remains convinced that our own subjective viewpoint is more urgent than anyone else's—indeed, even more valid than the objective matrix that underlies so-called reality. After all, the subjective view is a grand theater. Each of us gets to be hero of an ongoing drama. It's why ideologies and bigotries survive against all evidence or logic.

Investment success requires the conviction that comes from a fundamental understanding of the rationale for building the portfolio to certain specifications. Unless investors truly believe in the efficacy and validity of an unconventional approach to asset management, the end result almost certainly fails to withstand the wear and tear of market forces. Thoughtless

logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

Clichés earned their status as clichés because they're so obviously true

Nothing that is so, is so.

Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity;

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.