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"I think; therefore I am"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination"
Edward Abbey, Author
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"An inner process stands in need of outward criteria"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"Art and science have their meeting point in method"
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician
"I am one of the people who love the why of things"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
"The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"Hypotheses are what we lack the least"
Henri Poincare, Mathematician
"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress"
Joseph Joubert, Writer
"I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question"
Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist
"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law, nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally"
Ulrich Beck, Sociologist
"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
"Mathematics is the music of reason"
James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician
"One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem"
Stephen Hawking, Physicist
"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable"
Henri Bergson, Philosopher
"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly"
Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher
"I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd"
Brad Bird, Cartoonist
"Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion"
John Henry Newman, Clergyman
"Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think"
Luther Burbank, Environmentalist
"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one"
Felix Frankfurter, Judge
"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason"
Edward Coke, Businessman
"It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it"
Joey Skaggs, Celebrity
"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism"
David Suzuki, Scientist
"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense"
Franz Liszt, Composer
"Most controversies would soon be ended if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions"
Tryon Edwards, Theologian
"My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc"
David Bohm, Scientist
"Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself"
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Economist
"But if cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves"
Xenophanes, Philosopher
"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation"
Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist
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