William Hamilton Quotes

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

I'm not gay.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.

That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.

The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

First with the head, then with the heart.

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

She couldn't make it untrue.