Top 271 Validity Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value

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

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

Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.

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.

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

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

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

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

Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

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

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.

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

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.

Anti-Asian racism is very real, and it will not be solved with an opulent rom-com or Marvel superhero, but with you - the bystanders - acknowledging the validity of our pain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.

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.

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 was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with the validity of the philosopher's positions. I agree that assessing validity and contextualizing historically are two entirely distinct matters and not to be confused with one another. And yet that firm distinction doesn't lead me to endorse the usual way in which history of philosophy is presented.

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

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

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

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

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

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

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.

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 .

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

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

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

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