Quotes About Validity

sure you're right.

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.

Not all standards are equally persuasive, of course. Some will seem more directly on point, more widely accepted, or more immediately relevant in terms of time, place, or circumstance.

Because only the truest things always are true because they can't be true

It's hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you're scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.

We proceed in this society of ours on the possibly valid but untrue assumption that the public knows what it wants-- indeed, that it is given sufficient information about what is available to make such a judgment. And then we jump, irresponsibly and absurdly, to the notion that there is a valid relationship between what the public wants and what it should want.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

What we have called the "law" of creation, therefore, is both compelling (laws of nature) and appealing (norms), and the range of its validity can be both sweeping (general) and individualized (particular).

a major charge of the argument advanced here is that most social science survey findings are not scientific enough. They violate one's common everyday breeze-tasting sense of life precisely because they do not meet the standards of validity, reliability, and comprehensiveness that the best scientists have always insisted on

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the People to the intention of their agents.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night,But always think the last opinion right.

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.

All simulators are going to be different compared to reality, that's how I see it.

I am all for confrontation but not baseless.

If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.

Because an argument is used hypocritically, it does not necessarily follow that it is untrue.

Aristotle got tired of hearing lousy arguments in the marketplace and the assembly. So he decided to develop reasoning templates to apply to arguments in order to analyze them for validity.

If you will only ask yourself, "Is what I am being told really true?," it is amazing how much you can find is, or borders on, being false, even in a well-developed field!

Moral and ethical questions have no validity in Total War except in as far as their maintenance or destruction contributes towards ultimate Victory. Expediency, not morality, is the sole criterion of human conduct in Total War.' Dennis Wheatley, Total War, 1941