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"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
"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs; and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories"
Stefan Banach, Mathematician
"Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit"
Stefan Banach, Mathematician
"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason"
Charles Curtis, Vice President
"I'm here to make sense"
Edward James Olmos, Actor
"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other"
Oliver Evans, Inventor
"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter"
James M. Baldwin, Psychologist
"Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man"
George G. Simpson
"The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula"
Herbert Croly, Author
"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas"
Alfred Whitney Griswold, Educator
"Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind"
Wilkie Collins, Novelist
"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right"
Lord Hailsham, Politician
"A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts"
Herbert V. Prochnow, Businessman
"The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation"
Marquis De Custine, Author
"Superstition is the poison of the mind"
Joseph Lewis, Writer
"If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next"
James Lee Burke, Author
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Man is a rational animal, who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense"
Voltaire, Writer
"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause"
Voltaire, Writer
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"To live is to think"
Cicero, Philosopher
"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason"
Cicero, Philosopher
"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"The law is reason, free from passion"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"
Plato, Philosopher
"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
"I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it"
Henry Ford, Businessman
"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature"
C. S. Lewis, Author
"Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
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