Quotes About Validity

the world is an experiment in inventing validity, and conviction is its only proof.

Inga Alder opened my son's feedback-primed mind to a truth I myself never quite grasped: the world is an experiment in inventing validity, and conviction is its only proof.

world is an experiment in inventing validity, and conviction is its only proof.

In an attempt to break out and be a reasonable man, I had to realize that my own worries about what I did were valid and were important, but that they were not the whole story, that there must be a complementary way of looking at them, because other people did not see them as I did.

It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I've long since lost all such doubts, Ono,' he continued. 'When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I've wasted my time.

Dac? oamenii spun un lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? e È™i adev?rat.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,That, notwithstanding thy capacityReceiveth as the sea, nought enters there,Of what validity and pitch soe'er,But falls into abatement and low price,Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy,That it alone is high fantastical.

To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

Finding an answer that happens to fit is not the same as the right answer.

Just because 2 billion people believe it, doesn't mean it's true.

The day you start trusting the people who think you are right, then the people who are actually right, you are on your way down.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

Todo es justificable desde el propio punto de vista, y cada cual tiene el suyo, cargarse de razón es muy fácil.

The question never seems to be asked: is psychiatry a valid discipline?

No, a proof is a proof...

Nothing false will survive. Nothing true will perish.