The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works. — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music. — David Baker Copy Share Image
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves… — Philip D. Reed Copy Share Image
Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart:… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Our entire case as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests on the validity of this glorious First… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
We have to be very clear about what we're doing to our music. We're giving away free albums. Now think about the… — David Banner Copy Share Image
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the… — Joseph M. Kahn Copy Share Image
Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president. — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
