Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
Thomas Reid
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- The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
- There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
- Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
- 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.