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> [Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/every-conjecture-we-can-form-with-regard-to-the-works-of-god-has-as/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

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> [The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/the-wisdom-of-god-exceeds-that-of-the-wisest-man-more-than-his-wisdom/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

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> [Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/every-theory-in-philosophy-which-is-built-on-pure-conjecture-is-an/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

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## More by Thomas Reid

> [The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/the-want-of-faith-as-well-as-faith-itself-is-best-shewn-by-works-if-a/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/every-man-feels-that-perception-gives-him-an-invincible-belief-of-the/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/we-find-sects-and-parties-in-most-branches-of-science-and-disputes/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/every-conjecture-we-can-form-with-regard-to-the-works-of-god-has-as/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/when-we-contemplate-the-world-of-epicurus-and-conceive-the-universe/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/it-is-a-question-of-fact-whether-the-influence-of-motives-be-fixed-by/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/the-rules-of-navigation-never-navigated-a-ship-the-rules-of/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/there-is-no-greater-impediment-to-the-advancement-of-knowledge-than/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/but-when-in-the-first-setting-out-he-takes-it-for-granted-without/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/for-until-the-wisdom-of-men-bear-some-proportion-to-the-wisdom-of-god/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/for-the-perception-of-the-beautiful-we-have-the-term-taste-a-metaphor/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/and-if-we-have-any-evidence-that-the-wisdom-which-formed-the-plan-is/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/must-acknowledge-that-to-act-properly-is-much-more-valuable-than-to/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/i-sit-in-my-loft-with-the-haves-and-look-out-at-the-have-nots-the/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

> [ \[I\]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-reid/i-f-a-man-bred-to-the-seafaring-life-and-accustomed-to-think-and-talk/)

[Thomas Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-reid/)

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