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"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything"
Ernest Gaines, Writer
"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups"
Henry Hazlitt, Philosopher
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention"
Rudolf Arnheim, Artist
"Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words"
Alfred Korzybski, Scientist
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers"
Carroll Quigley, Writer
"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic"
Nicola Abbagnano, Philosopher
"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
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason"
Voltaire, Writer
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"Cause and effect are two sides of one fact"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"My objection to Liberalism is this, that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind, namely politics, of philosophical ideas instead of political principles"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"Reason is immortal, all else mortal"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes"
Virgil, Writer
"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor"
William Wordsworth, Poet
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
Jane Austen, Writer
"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
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common"
John Locke, Philosopher
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity"
Adam Smith, Economist
"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain'"
Mary Astell, Writer
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"
David Hume, Philosopher
"When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek"
Jim Fiebig, Businessman
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"It is certain because it is possible"
Tertullian, Author
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water"
John W. Gardner, Educator
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization"
Agnes Repplier, Writer
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual"
Galileo Galilei, Scientist
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