Critical Thinking Quotes

"To learn to think is to learn to live" "Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken." "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." "Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself " "I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly I think is more honorable than not to judge at all " "The crowd is untruth" "Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who only know what to think" "Remember that you are looking for the best answer not simply the best answer that you can come up with yourself" "We do not talk we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers magazines and digests" "Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave" "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak" "The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think" "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me." "The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts" "I have always thought that religion has nothing useful to teach us" "We only think when we are confronted with problems" "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic"