Critical Thinking Quotes

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." "Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality." "Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy." "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense." "Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls." "Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous." "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." "Prejudices are what fools use for reason." "The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms " "The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. " "Experts often possess more data than judgment." "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." "Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people" "People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to." "Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them"