Logo
Quote by Thomas Reid
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge tha

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

Category:
Wisdom
Author
Thomas Reid
Read Quote

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

Category:
Wisdom
Author
Thomas Reid
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. – H. G. Wells

Category:
Knowledge

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Knowledge

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. – Aristotle

Category:
Knowledge

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn vos Savant

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

Category:
Illusion

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I cant think of a profession I have more respect for. – Jon Hamm

Category:
respect

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. – David Starr Jordan

Category:
Right, Rightness

My marriage? Up to now everythings okay. But its a real marriage – imperfect and very difficult. Its all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think weve emotionally evolved. – Jamie Lee Curtis

Category:
Marriage