Boundaries Quote by Al Gore

Reason is simply a vast tautology.

— J. M. Coetzee

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

— Anonymous

“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

— Blaise Pascal

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“it does not mean that we can substitute theoretical reasoning for justified lament.”

— Kelly M Kapic

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are…

— Robert Vaughn

When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with…

— Marianne Fredriksson

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

— Peter D. Mitchell

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

— Albert Einstein