Quotes About Validity

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

Faith is only as valid as its object. You could have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown. . . . You could have very little faith in very thick ice and be perfectly secure.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Everything after but is BullShit !

For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of doctors, even when we call in the best of them the chances are that we may be staking our hopes on some medical theory that will be proved false in a few years. So that to believe in medicine would be utter madness, were it not still a greater madness not to believe in it, for from this accumulation of errors a few valid theories have emerged in the long run.

Yes, that. You're feeling cognitive dissonance, Jamie. Two contradictory-yet-entirely-valid-within-their-contexts thoughts about the same subject. And humans hate that shit. We hate it so much. The worst answer for us for anything is, 'It depends.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

Just because something 'happens', because it is 'true', because the 'facts' are correct, does not ensure that it is the truth.

My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'

Nothing is completely wrong in this world even the clock which has stopped working is correct twice a day.

Quaedam iura non scripta, sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt.

But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.

Platitudes Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.

Side note: invalid. Whoever invented that word, and made it the same word as not-valid? That person sucked.

Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the sky, yes, but I actually believe it.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

The true things rarely get into circulation. It's usually the false things.

Es demasiado odio junto para que sea verdadero.

Collecting data using improper methods can spoil any statistical analysis

Totalitarian propaganda can outrageously insult common sense only where common sense has lost its validity.

All generalizations are false, including this one.