Validity Quotes

Validity Quote of the day

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

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

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

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath.

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

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

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

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.

Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.