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Top 20 Thomas Reid Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Reid Quote: “The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, for if that fails the chain fails and the object that it has been holding up falls to the ground.”

1. “The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, for if that fails the chain fails and the object that it has been holding up falls to the ground.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.”

2. “There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.”

3. “In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”

4. “The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “Those who reject some principle of common sense in speculation, find themselves under necessity of being governed by it in their practice. A skeptic may struggle hard to disbelieve the information of his senses, as a man does to swim against the torrent; but ah! it is in vain... For after all, when his strength is spent in the fruitless attempt, he will be carried down the torrent with the common herd of believers.”

5. “Those who reject some principle of common sense in speculation, find themselves under necessity of being governed by it in their practice. A skeptic may struggle hard to disbelieve the information of his senses, as a man does to swim against the torrent; but ah! it is in vain... For after all, when his strength is spent in the fruitless attempt, he will be carried down the torrent with the common herd of believers.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “Let scholastic sophisters entangle themselves in their own cobwebs; I am resolved to take my own existence, and the existence of other things, upon trust; and to believe that snow is cold, and honey sweet, whatever they may say to the contrary. He must either be a fool, or want to make a fool of me, that would reason me out of my reason and senses.”

6. “Let scholastic sophisters entangle themselves in their own cobwebs; I am resolved to take my own existence, and the existence of other things, upon trust; and to believe that snow is cold, and honey sweet, whatever they may say to the contrary. He must either be a fool, or want to make a fool of me, that would reason me out of my reason and senses.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.”

7. “For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.”

8. “The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”

9. “The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “If there are certain principles, as I think there are, which the’ constitution of our nature leads us to believe, and which we are under a necessity to take for granted in the common concerns of life,′ without being able to give a reason for them; these are what we call the principles of common sense; and what is manifestly contrary to them, is what we call absurd.”

10. “If there are certain principles, as I think there are, which the’ constitution of our nature leads us to believe, and which we are under a necessity to take for granted in the common concerns of life,′ without being able to give a reason for them; these are what we call the principles of common sense; and what is manifestly contrary to them, is what we call absurd.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.”

11. “I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “For the perception of the beautiful we have the term “taste” – a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.”

12. “For the perception of the beautiful we have the term “taste” – a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact, and partly by conjecture, is like Nebuchadnezzar’s image, whose feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay.”

13. “Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact, and partly by conjecture, is like Nebuchadnezzar’s image, whose feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.”

14. “The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “I confess I know not what a sceptic can answer to this, nor by what good argument he can plead even for a hearing; for either his reasoning is sophistry, and so deserves contempt; or there is no truth in the human faculties, and then why should we reason?”

15. “I confess I know not what a sceptic can answer to this, nor by what good argument he can plead even for a hearing; for either his reasoning is sophistry, and so deserves contempt; or there is no truth in the human faculties, and then why should we reason?”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.”

16. “It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.”

— Thomas Reid

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

17. “Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.”

18. “It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.”

19. “Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.”

20. “It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid 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.”

21. “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

Thomas Reid Quote: “Philosophy has no other root but the principles of common sense.; it grows out from them, and draws its nourishment from them; severed from this root, its honours wither up, its sap is dried up, it dies and rots.”

22. “Philosophy has no other root but the principles of common sense.; it grows out from them, and draws its nourishment from them; severed from this root, its honours wither up, its sap is dried up, it dies and rots.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “There is nothing so absurd which some philosophers have not maintained.”

23. “There is nothing so absurd which some philosophers have not maintained.”

— Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid Quote: “Nature hath given us us a particular emotion, to wit, that of ridicule, which seems intended for this very purpose of putting out of countenance what is absurd, either in opinion or practice. This weapon, when properly applied, cuts with as keen an edge as argument. Nature has furnished us with the first to expose absurdity; as with the last to refute error.”

24. “Nature hath given us us a particular emotion, to wit, that of ridicule, which seems intended for this very purpose of putting out of countenance what is absurd, either in opinion or practice. This weapon, when properly applied, cuts with as keen an edge as argument. Nature has furnished us with the first to expose absurdity; as with the last to refute error.”

— Thomas Reid

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