source: John Stuart Mill (1846). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.337

topic: Science, Events, Causes, Validity

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.

- Kenneth Scott Latourette

topic: Men, Quests, Hinduism, Validity

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.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

source: Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.50, Princeton University Press

topic: Consciousness, Arise, Totality, Validity

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.

- Cornelia Otis Skinner

source: Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

topic: Spring, Apes, Curious, Sprung, Validity

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.

- John W. Thompson

source: "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

topic: Integrity, Moving, Data, Validity

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

- John Mortimer

topic: Writing, Found, Bores, Validity

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

topic: Emotional, Scorpios, Lows, Highs And Lows, Validity

No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.

- Vicente del Bosque

source: "Vicente del Bosque: Putting regional tensions aside has united Spain" by Jimmy Burns, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

topic: Football, Lying, People, Validity

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

- William H. Wharton

topic: Perseverance, Land, Able, Validity

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Change, Beauty, Believe, Validity

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

- Werner Heisenberg

topic: Two, Analogies, Wave, Validity

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.

- Mary Hunter Austin

source: Mary Hunter Austin (1994). “Cactus Thorn”, p.108, University of Nevada Press

topic: Women, World, Way, Validity, Ability To See

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.

- Lawrence Kohlberg

topic: Effort, Principles, Groups, Validity

Know what you're talking about.

- George H. W. Bush

source: George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

topic: Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary, Humpty Dumpty, Software Design

I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself to believe in its worth. Young men are often guilt-ridden about pleasure, and I suppose I was no different. I suppose I thought that to pass away one's time in such places, to spend one's skills celebrating things so intangible and transient, I suppose I thought it all rather wasteful, all rather decadent. It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Kazuo Ishiguro (2012). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.150, Vintage

topic: Believe, Men, Skills, Validity

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

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Guarantees, Logical, Persons, Infinite Jest, Validity

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 .

- Max Weber

topic: Meaningful, Judging, Matter, Validity

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

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

source: "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy". Book by Joseph Schumpeter, Part IV, Chapter XX, Section III, 1942.

topic: Men, Barbarians, Realizing, Validity

Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.

- Katherine Anne Porter

topic: Art, Men, Mind, Validity

Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas.

- Teresa Amabile

topic: Creativity, Successful, Opportunity, Validity, Identifying

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

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Atheist, Atheism, Inference, Validity

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.

- Sam Harris

source: "The Moral Landscape". Book by Sam Harris, 2010.

topic: Reality, Objectivity, Best Effort, Abstaining, Validity

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Courage, Honesty, Integrity, Validity, Best Political

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.

- Daniel Kahneman

source: "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

topic: Powerful, Quality, Stories, Validity, Overconfidence

The hope that God has provided for you is not merely a wish. Neither is it dependent on other people, possessions, or circumstances for its validity. Instead, biblical hope is an application of your faith that supplies a confident expectation in God's fulfillment of His promises. Coupled with faith and love, hope is part of the abiding characteristics in a believer's life.

- John C. Broger

topic: Biblical, People, Expectations, Hope Love, Validity

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

- Thomas Huxley

source: Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

topic: Believe, Science, Law, Causation, Validity

When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.

- Rudolf Steiner

topic: Real, Feelings, Tests, Consolidation, Validity

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

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Miracle, Being True, Humans, Reasoning, Validity

Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.

- Daniel Kahneman

source: Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.247, Macmillan

topic: Powerful, Believe, Skills, Validity

One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldviewâ€”not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these casesâ€¦ but people prefer reassurance to research.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: People, Support, Effort, Large Groups, Validity

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

- Carl L. Becker

topic: Giving, Mind, Hocus Pocus, Validity

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

- Peter Drucker

topic: Purpose, Tests, Profit, Validity

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

- Robert Venturi

source: Robert Venturi, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1977). “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture”, p.41, The Museum of Modern Art

topic: Order, Giving, Anomalies, Validity

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

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Storm, Middle, Not Afraid, Validity

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

- Michael Polanyi

source: Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

topic: Coherence, Judgment, Criteria, Qualitative, Validity

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

- Jean Helion

topic: Artist, Achievement, Mature, Validity, Futility

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Running, Thinking, People, Computation, Stock Exchange

It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings of great joy and this must be reflected in our lives, if we are to be believable especially as we suggest to others that there is, in fact, not only a better way, but also the way. Scriptures that speak of man as a being who "might have joy" have more impact when falling from the lips or pens of men and women whose lives give fresh evidence of the validity of that scripture.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Fall, Men, Impact, Validity

In a way, the great thing about Batman is that there are so many of him that you can usually find one you like. Often, it's the one that was current when you began following the character. But though you like the Batman of one decade, you may well despise (and not recognize the validity of) the Batman of some other decade. If you've been a fan of the character for forty years, you probably hate half of them.

- Mark Evanier

topic: Hate, Character, Years, Validity

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

- Anthony Kennedy

topic: Rights, Voting, Right To Vote, Validity, Voting Rights Act

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

- Carl Rogers

source: Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Ideas, Return, Becoming, Approximation, Touchstones

For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.

- Bertrand de Jouvenel

topic: Military, Men, Long, Validity

Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual.

- Thomas Huxley

topic: Intellectual, Negative, Principles, Agnosticism, Validity

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

- Evan Williams

topic: Talent, Entrepreneurial, Bigs, Validity, Big Companies

Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Spiritual, Brother, Children, Validity

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

- Erich Fromm

source: Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

topic: Validation, Ideas, People, Validity

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

- Richard P. Feynman

source: "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist". Book by Richard Feynman, 1999.

topic: Religious, Philosophical, Adventure, Validity, Artistic Expression

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