Validity Requires Confirmation

Famous quotes containing the words validity, requires and/or confirmation:

    Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature—a type nowhere at present existing.
    Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

    Trifles light as air
    Are to the jealous confirmation strong
    As proofs of holy writ.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)