Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow. Austin Dacey Related Quotes: Intuition Quotes, Reason Quotes, Wisdom Quotes Theres nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. Daniel Dennett Related Quotes: Argument Quotes, Reason Quotes The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought. Edith Hamilton Related Quotes: Edith Hamilton Quotes, Mind Quotes, Reason Quotes Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. Ralph Waldo Emerson Related Quotes: Ethics Quotes, Humility Quotes, Love Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Reason Quotes, Religion Quotes, Service Quotes Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare. Harriet Martineau Related Quotes: Books Quotes, Harriet Martineau Quotes, Reason Quotes The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and disgested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped. Francis Bacon Related Quotes: Experience Quotes, Francis Bacon Quotes, Reason Quotes, Science Quotes [W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. Isaac Asimov Related Quotes: Earth Quotes, Isaac Asimov Quotes, Limitations Quotes, Mistakes Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Reality Quotes, Reason Quotes, Science Quotes, Stupidity Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Truth Quotes Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can. Oliver Goldsmith Related Quotes: Logic Quotes, Mind Quotes, Reason Quotes There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. Dorothy Thompson Related Quotes: Dorothy Thompson Quotes, Fear Quotes, Reason Quotes, Truth Quotes Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson Related Quotes: Opinion Quotes, Reason Quotes, Thomas Jefferson Quotes Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- its astonishing. These numbers arent duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. Youd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population. Noam Chomsky Related Quotes: America Quotes, Noam Chomsky Quotes, Reason Quotes, Religion Quotes Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. Thomas Jefferson Related Quotes: Agnosticism/Atheism Quotes, Fear Quotes, Questions Quotes, Reason Quotes, Thomas Jefferson Quotes When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin Related Quotes: Anais Nin Quotes, Change/Growth Quotes, Faith Quotes, Politics Quotes, Reason Quotes, Religion Quotes, Truth Quotes Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. Buddha (more) Related Quotes: Belief Quotes, Buddha Quotes, Integrity/Individuality Quotes, Reason Quotes, Truth Quotes Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein Related Quotes: Albert Einstein Quotes, Genius Quotes, Problem Solving Quotes, Reason Quotes There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. Edward Abbey Related Quotes: California Quotes, Edward Abbey Quotes, Experience Quotes, Logic Quotes, Reason Quotes, Science Quotes But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Related Quotes: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes, Feeling Quotes, Reason Quotes Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. Elbert Hubbard (more) Related Quotes: Diversity Quotes, Elbert Hubbard Quotes, Good Quotes, Reason Quotes, Religion Quotes Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. Alexander Hamilton Related Quotes: Genius Quotes, Reason Quotes Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. Joseph Cook Related Quotes: Conscience Quotes, Reason Quotes
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