Validity Quotes - Page 8

• If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Buddhism, Ideas, Islam

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1995). “Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings”, p.183, Penguin UK

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

  Edward de Bono

  Assessment, Historical, Assumption

  Edward De Bono (1970). “Lateral Thinking: creativity step by step COTF MGT”

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• In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

  Carl Jung

  Errors, Age, Degrees

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• 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.

  Romare Bearden

  Art, World, Logic

  Romare Bearden (1968). “Romare Bearden: Paintings and Projections”

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• If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ideas, Imagination, Religion

  "Why I Am Not a Christian". "The First-cause Argument". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1927.

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• It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Views, Landscape, Impossible

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

  Toyin Odutola

  Wall, Portraits, Okay

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

  Paul Feyerabend

  Adequacy, Research, Standards

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience is a drug experience. We're all on drugs all the time, largely because we are MADE of drugs

  Dennis McKenna

  Spiritual, People, Drug

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

  Alan Feduccia

  Class, Bird, Dinosaurs

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• 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.

  Oswald Mosley

  Plato, Hero, Men

  "Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale". Book by Nicholas Mosley, 1982.

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• …It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued. ‘When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I’ve wasted my time.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Unique, Men

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Mar 24, 2012

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• 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.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Acting, Speech, Claims

  "n the Pragmatics of Communication". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1998.

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• The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation. And there is no better system for determining the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea in the waters of public discussion and debate.

  Dave Rodgers

  Truth, Ideas, Water

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

  Bill Crawford

  Stress, Worry, Belief

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• The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Errors, Self

  "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" (1948)

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• The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Integrity, Humility, Responsibility

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• 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.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Law, Cosmos, Fundamentals

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.453, OUP Oxford

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

  Robert H. Jackson

  Doe, Doctrine, Depends

  "Wells v. Simonds Abrasive Co., 345 U.S. 514, 525". Judicial opinion, 1953.

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• I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms... A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter.

  Graham Sutherland

  Unique, Encounters, Recognition

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• The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.

  James W. Prescott

  Society, Degrees, Variables

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• The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.

  David M. Raup

  Circularity, Construction, Range

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• Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Doubt, Fields

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.10, Vintage

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• The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Law, Obligation

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.43

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• The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.

  R. D. Laing

  People, Mad, Heaven

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