Truth Quote by Samuel Johnson

“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the…

— William Kingdon Clifford

“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens....inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which…

— Anthony Everitt

“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the…

— Jean-Baptiste Biot

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

— Mason Cooley

“There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And it may be thus described: a true sense of the divine excellency of the things revealed in the word of God, and a…

— Jonathan Edwards

Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice…

— Matthew Arnold

“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those. The great…

— H.G. Wells

“APORIA  (APO'RIA) n.s. [a figure in rhetorick, by which the speaker shews, that he doubts where to begin for the multitude of matter, or what…

— Samuel Johnson

“Between the lines Phaedrus read no doubts, no sense of awe, only the eternal smugness of the professional academician.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Certainty in faith and doubt in reason removed the means by which to reach understandings or agreements on the basis of what is reasonable,…

— Robert Reilly

“It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate the account of knowledge offered by Augustine…

— James K.A. Smith