Validity Quotes

... logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. (David Foster Wallace)
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
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. View quote
Kenneth Scott Latourette
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience. View quote
Maurice Allais
To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it. View quote
George Henry Lewes
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy. View quote
Theodor Adorno
A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the ‘religion' of our time. View quote
Desmond Morris
...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. View quote
Oswald Mosley
There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation. (Carl Jung)
But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. View quote
Max Weber
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. View quote
Cornelia Otis Skinner
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. (Chely Wright)
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. View quote
Frank Shorter
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. View quote
Lawrence Kohlberg
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. View quote
Piers Morgan
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay. View quote
Toyin Odutola