Philosophy & Thought: Reason & Logic Quotes

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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

Henri Poincare

"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

Karl Popper

"The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

Louis D. Brandeis

"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

William E. Gladstone

"In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

B. R. Ambedkar

"Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"Coincidence is logical"

Johan Cruijff, Athlete

"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by nor for the human intellect"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect between the disaster and the atrocity"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

Sydney Smith

"The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat"

John Morley, Statesman

John Morley

"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

Shelley Duvall

"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man"

George Berkeley, Philosopher

George Berkeley

"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"I like to figure things out and solve problems"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

Allan Bloom

"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

Allan Bloom

"Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments"

Sidney Hook, Philosopher

"We do not live to think, but on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"All our work, our whole life, is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country"

Sinclair Lewis, Novelist

"Intuition is reason in a hurry"

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

Holbrook Jackson

"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being"

Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher

"But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only"

Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher

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