Validity Quotes

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

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.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps removed from scientific validity.

I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works.

That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."

I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the future, and say, "Okay, these guys have cultural validity and they're going to pop."

Most corporate decisions aren't going to meet the test of high validity. But they're going to be way above the low-validity situations that we worry about.

If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.

God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!

Unless you are in the middle of a storm, there is no validity in saying that you are not afraid of the storms.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument.

Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.

One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence in space. The validity of physical theorems is founded on this repeatability.

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

People who are not on Facebook are face to face.

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.