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I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance  (Thomas Reid Quotes) Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned  (Thomas Reid Quotes) 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 Quotes) There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words  (Thomas Reid Quotes) 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 Quotes) The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house  (Thomas Reid Quotes) A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy  (Thomas Reid Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely  (Thomas Reid Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)