Able Quote by George Eliot

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound…

— John Locke

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure…

— Nelson Goodman

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

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

— Roger Bacon

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

— Patricia Wentworth

A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.

— Lloyd Paul Stryker

“He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins to take…

— John Verdon

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind…

— Bernd Heinrich

A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking…

— F. C. S. Schiller