Philosophy & Thought: Reason & Logic Quotes

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"Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot are fools, and those who dare not are slaves"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

Alan Turing

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

Arthur Conan Doyle

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

Arthur Conan Doyle

"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

Karl Popper

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one"

Charles Mackay, Poet

"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting"

Stanislaus I, Royalty

Stanislaus I

"In everything one thing is impossible: rationality"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Niels Bohr

"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

Henri Poincare

"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom"

Georg Cantor, Mathematician

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck"

James Whitcomb Riley, Poet

"Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat"

Ernest Bevin, Public Servant

"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys"

Emma Bull, Writer

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

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