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"Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion"
John Henry Newman, Clergyman
"To understand is to perceive patterns"
Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher
"He who frames the question wins the debate"
Randall Terry, Celebrity
"Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?"
Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"But to us, probability is the very guide of life"
Joseph Butler, Clergyman
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities"
Voltaire, Writer
"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
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"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
"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself"
Plato, Philosopher
"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals"
Plato, Philosopher
"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought"
John F. Kennedy, President
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"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
"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reasons the card, but passion the gale"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances"
Isaac Newton, Mathematician
"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant"
Helen Keller, Author
"Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt"
Simon Bolivar, Leader
"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted"
Erich Fromm, Psychologist
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