Critical Thinking Quotes

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees" "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information" "Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions" "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things" "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." "It is time we realized that faith is an impostor." "Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations." "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "Beware the man of a single book." "Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don’t have all the answers to think that they do" "I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men" "Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all" "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself" "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." "An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy" "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do" "Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions" "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong" "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting"