Philosophy & Thought: Reason & Logic Quotes

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"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

Alexis Carrel

"It is certain because it is possible"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

Arthur Conan Doyle

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

Thomas Hobbes

"When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek"

Jim Fiebig, Businessman

Jim Fiebig

"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

John W. Gardner

"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization"

Agnes Repplier, Writer

Agnes Repplier

"Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Mathematics is the music of reason"

James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician

James Joseph Sylvester

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"He who frames the question wins the debate"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

Randall Terry

"To understand is to perceive patterns"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

Adam Weishaupt

"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

Abigail Adams

"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence"

Will Cuppy, Writer

"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"But to us, probability is the very guide of life"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic"

David Russell, Musician

"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding"

Xi Zhi, Philosopher

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind"

Adolf Anderssen, Celebrity

"No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful"

George Boole, Mathematician

George Boole

"By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?"

Chauncey Wright, Philosopher

"As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reasons the card, but passion the gale"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

Robert G. Ingersoll

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