Quote by Thomas Reid
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of archi

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. – Thomas Reid

Other quotes by Thomas Reid

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. – Thomas Reid

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Wisdom
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. – Thomas Reid

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Knowledge
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And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. – Thomas Reid

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Wisdom
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Other Quotes from
architecture
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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become ones entire life. – Arne Jacobsen

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architecture

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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architecture

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. – Jay Chiat

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architecture

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. – Michael Mandelbaum

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architecture

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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed. – Louis Fischer

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Hypocrisy

I… wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. – James Agate

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Places

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it – Lyman Beecher

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Deception/Lying

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them. – Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

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Equality