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The justification of a belief is a matter of its being the best explanation of the available evidence.
Peter Lipton
The justification of a belief is a matter of its being the most reasonable option given the available alternatives.
John Pollock
The justification of a belief is a matter of its being warranted by the cognitive processes that produced it.
Fred Dretske
Justification is a matter of fitting one's beliefs to the world, not of proving them.
Hilary Kornblith
The justification of knowledge is not a matter of finding a foundation but of tracing the connections between beliefs.
Susan Haack
The justification of a belief is always relative to a background of assumptions.
W.V. Quine
The justification of a belief is not a matter of subjective experience but of objective evidence.
Alvin Plantinga
The justification of a belief is a matter of its being supported by reasons that are themselves justified.
Richard Feldman
The justification of a belief is a matter of its being based on reliable sources of information.
Linda Zagzebski
Objectivity is a quality that science demands, but it is not a quality that science attains.
Bruno Latour
Objectivity is not a quality that belongs to the world of nature itself but is a product of culture and history.
Donna Haraway
Objectivity is not the absence of subjectivity; it is the disciplined practice of recognizing and controlling subjectivity.
Lorraine Code
Objectivity is not the same thing as truth; it is only an approximation of truth.
Edward Abbey
Objectivity is a myth, a mirage, a will-o'-the-wisp that leads us into the swamp of subjectivity.
John Horgan
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Thomas Nagel
Objectivity is a way of life, a habit of mind, a manner of thinking.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Objectivity is the result of a disciplined interaction between the objective world and ourselves.
Wilfred Bion
Objectivity is the essence of intelligence.
Mary McCarthy
All knowledge is subjective
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
Socrates
We see the world not as it is, but as we are
Anaïs Nin
There are no facts, only interpretations
Friedrich Nietzsche
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me
Meister Eckhart
The limits of my language means the limits of my world
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning
Werner Heisenberg
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think
Horace Walpole
The truth is rarely pure and never simple
Oscar Wilde
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds.
Marcel Proust
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
Buddha
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on.
Unknown
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein
The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
The most important thing we can do is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
Alvin Plantinga
Belief is the antithesis of knowing.
Terence McKenna
Belief is the enemy of truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lionel Trilling
Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty.
Gilbert Ryle
Belief is a powerful tool that can be used to manipulate people into doing things they would not otherwise do.
Steven Novella
Belief is a necessary condition for knowledge, but it is not sufficient.
Bertrand Russell
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
The more we know, the more we realize how much we don't know.
Voltaire
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you don't have evidence, you don't have anything.
Bill Nye
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Augustine of Hippo
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu
The truth is like a surgery. It hurts but cures. A lie is like a painkiller. It gives instant relief but has side effects forever.
Unknown
Justification is the glue that holds knowledge together.
Bertrand Russell
Justification is the key to knowledge.
Plato
Justification is the process by which we move from opinion to knowledge.
Aristotle
Justification is the foundation of knowledge.
Immanuel Kant
Justification is the criterion of knowledge.
William James
Justification is the process by which we determine the truth of our beliefs.
Alvin Plantinga
Justification is the process by which we acquire knowledge.
Epictetus
Justification is the process by which we validate our beliefs.
René Descartes
Justification is the process by which we establish the reliability of our beliefs.
W.V. Quine
The greater the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
Certainty is the enemy of growth.
Unknown
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
The only certainty is that we know nothing for certain.
Plato
Certainty is the most vivid pledge of ignorance.
William Hazlitt
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
Knowledge is not a thing to be passively received, but an activity to be actively pursued.
William S. Burroughs
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.
Sir Edward Coke
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
John Keats
The only true way to wisdom is through humility.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
Robert Graves
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
Aristotle
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.
Sylvia Clare
Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills.
Sylvia Clare
Intuition is the voice of the soul.
Unknown
Intuition is a powerful force that can help us make better decisions.
Deepak Chopra
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
There is no substitute for direct perception.
David Hume
The senses are the windows of the soul.
Thomas Hobbes
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know.
Aristotle
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
All knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.
John Locke
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
The knowledge of all things is possible.
Leonardo da Vinci
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The only true knowledge is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
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