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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• En la segunda mitad de la vida se impone la necesidad de reconocer no ya la validez de nuestros antiguos ideales, sino la de sus contrarios. De percibir el error en lo que antes era nuestra convicción, de percibir la falsedad en lo que era nuestra verdad, y de sopesar el grado de oposición, e incluso de hostilidad, en lo que tomábamos por amor.

  Carl Jung

  Errores, edad, grados

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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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• Es imposible describir un paisaje de forma tan válida que excluya todas las demás descripciones, ya que nadie puede ver el paisaje en todos sus aspectos al mismo tiempo, y ninguna visión puede impedir la existencia y validez de otras visiones igualmente posibles.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Vistas, Paisaje, Imposible

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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

  "La ciencia en una sociedad libre". Libro de 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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• el viejo axioma de que "todo poder corrompe" tiene una validez dudosa, porque se deriva de nuestro descuido del consejo de Plato de buscar cuidadosamente a los hombres y formarlos con métodos que los hagan aptos para héroes.

  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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• Desarrollaré la tesis de que cualquiera que actúe comunicativamente debe, al realizar cualquier acto de habla, plantear pretensiones de validez universal y suponer que pueden ser reivindicadas.

  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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• La profecía autocumplida es, al principio, una definición falsa de la situación que evoca un nuevo comportamiento que hace realidad la concepción originalmente falsa. La validez engañosa de la profecía autocumplida perpetúa un reino de error. Porque el profeta citará el curso real de los acontecimientos como prueba de que tenía razón desde el principio.

  Robert K. Merton

  Ciencia, Errores, Yo

  "La profecía autocumplida" (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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• El absurdismo, como la duda metódica, ha hecho borrón y cuenta nueva. Nos deja en un callejón sin salida. Pero, al igual que la duda metódica, puede, volviendo sobre sí mismo, abrir un nuevo campo de investigación, y en el proceso de razonamiento sigue entonces el mismo curso. Proclamo que no creo en nada y que todo es absurdo, pero no puedo dudar de la validez de mi proclamación y al menos debo creer en mi protesta.

  Albert Camus

  Creer, Dudar, Campos

  Albert Camus (2012). "El Rebelde: An Essay on Man in Revolt", p.10, Vintage

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• La ley... dictada por Dios mismo es, por supuesto, superior en obligación a cualquier otra. Es obligatoria en todo el mundo, en todos los países y en todo momento. Ninguna ley humana tiene validez si es contraria a ella.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Law, Obligation

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). "Las obras de Alexander Hamilton: Misceláneas, 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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