Critical Thinking Quotes

"By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion." "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing" "Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it." "Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow." "When scientific evidence is given, reasoning is paramount." "The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know" "Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them" "My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous" "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" "Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant." "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them" "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true" "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so" "In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted" "The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling" "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." "To understand is to discover, or reconstruct by rediscovery, and such conditions must be complied with if in the future individuals are to be formed who are capable of production and creativity and not simply repetition" "If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value it?" "We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it."