Common Quote by George Bancroft

Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was…

— Thomas Nagel

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

— Anonymous

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

— Cardinal Richelieu

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at…

— Max Horkheimer

To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes…

— William Pepperell Montague

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

— Ludwig von Mises

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine…

— George MacDonald

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all…

— Richard Mitchell

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

— Alexander Pope