Thomas Reid Quotes

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

~ Thomas Reid

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

~ Thomas Reid

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

~ Thomas Reid