knowledge Quotes

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.