First sight Quote by Bertrand Russell

“My argument is only that the intensity of belief in an idea or the reach of its acceptance is no guarantee of its validity.…

— Bilahari P S Kausikan

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying…

— Franz Kafka

“A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the…

— Richie Norton

“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to…

— René Descartes

“If it's Truth we're after, we'll find that we cannot start with any assumptions or concepts whatsoever. Instead, we must approach the world with…

— Steve Hagen

“After any thing has come into Knowledge, it can never revert back into ignorance; contradictions do not arise. By helping every established principle (siddhant)…

— Dada Bhagwan

As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity…

— C. D. Broad

When people say, 'From first principles... ' to start their argument, what they mean is that they wish to assume as few things as…

— Bryan Johnson

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory,…

— Milan Kundera

“The knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.”

— Claude Adrien Helvétius

“An 'established principle' is the one which will never become untrue, irrespective of time.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One can believe…

— Georg Hermes