Validity Quotes

152 quotes by 140 authors

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on. — Denis Waitley
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears. — Bill Crawford
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.… — Robert K. Merton
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… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
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
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… — John C. Broger
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,… — Dave Rodgers
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… — David M. Raup
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… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
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… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
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… — Dennis McKenna
It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves doubting the validity… — Philip D. Reed
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes, moral… — Robert McCracken
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the… — Bernard Lown
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true. — C.S. Lewis
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself. — John Mortimer
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music. — Dwight Yoakam
Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works. — John Michael Greer
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… — Frithjof Schuon
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,… — William H. Wharton

Who Wrote These Validity Quotes

140 authors contributed a total of 152 Validity Quotes, led by these top contributors: