Accepting Quote by C. D. Broad

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

— Henry Adams

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

— George Pell

“If any one asks: ‘Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses?’ we can only answer by appealing to…

— Bertrand Russell

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

— Thomas Carlyle

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.”

— Juli Zeh

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience…

— Maria Edgeworth

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the…

— Edward Abbey

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

— Lyman Bryson

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and…

— Hippocrates

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another,…

— Jane Austen