Cases Quote by Alexander Alekhine

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any…

— Max Horkheimer

“All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be a manufactured…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

— Edwin Land

“For him, conscious intent was a form of prediction, and prediction is only possible when the status quo has reason to assume it will…

— William S. Burroughs

“Infallibility has to do with the question of ability or potential; that which is infallible is said to be unable to make mistakes or…

— R.C. Sproul

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

— Kedar Joshi

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible…

— J. I. Packer

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly,…

— Ada Lovelace

Doubt cannot override a certainty.

— The Talmud

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth…

— Paulo Freire