Consequence Quote by John Locke

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our…

— John Locke

In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but…

— John Locke

Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the…

— John Locke

Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief…

— Scott Clifton

Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is…

— Ann Coulter

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ‚‚ out of…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves,…

— Henri Poincare

The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media…

— Hooman Majd

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

— Carl Gustav Hempel

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…

— Baruch Spinoza

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,…

— John Maynard Keynes

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,…

— Thomas Malthus

If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in…

— Dolores Huerta

Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such…

— James Madison

I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger…

— Ellen G. White