Critical Thinking Quotes

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated" "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions" "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance" "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think" "The unexamined life is not worth living" "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers" "I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain" "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." "Five percent of the people think ten percent of the people think they think and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think" "Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form" "Realists do not fear the results of their study." "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." "Prejudices are what fools use for reason." "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain" "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool" "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned" "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts" "Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them"