Quotes About Validation

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would like to be the first to tell you who criticized you.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Truth does not cease to exist because no one believes it.

No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like

You were right once, young man," Anapol said. "That may be all the being right you get.

called Hector Villabona and confirmed that

The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don't need to add to them.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

Alone, Malcolm unrolled the strip of paper that had come with the sample. It was a piece of paper torn from a yellow legal pad. In block printing, it said: I WAS RIGHT AND YOU WERE WRONG.

The essence of verification is multiple lines of reasoning that converge at a single point.

His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.

The Franchise Prototype is also the place where all assumptions are put to the test to see how well they work before becoming operational in the business.

Having talent and not putting it on the line is just like not having it and desperately wanting to be recognized

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

Toda profesión estaba organizada para confirmar la sabiduría de sus decisiones

Rivals accused Whitney of being overrated; bloggers accused her of being lucky. What she was, mainly, was right.

He shouted into the phone, "That is fuckin' awesome. I mean fuckin' awesome. I fuckin' mean fucking awesome. You are one Big Swinging Dick, and don't ever let anybody tell you different." It brought tears to my eyes to hear it, to be called a Big Swinging Dick by the man who, years ago, had given birth to the distinction and in my mind had the greatest right to confer it upon me.

A good listener is a witness, not a judge of your experience.

Nothing hurts more than the sense that the people we care about aren't really listening. We never outgrow the need to have our feelings known.