Famous Quotes

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

Thomas Reid on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Thomas Reid

• "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."