"The rules of navigation never navigated a ship.……" — Thomas Reid

"The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house."

— Thomas Reid

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15 Quotes by Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause…
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the…
must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him…
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all…
In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest…
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is…
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of…
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of…
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the…

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More Architecture Quotes

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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