Critical Thinking Quotes

"Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion" "Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see" "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry" "Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul." "The function of the scholar is to destroy myths" "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt" "Don't just teach your children to read, teach them to question what they read" "Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous" "You can't have people saying that evolution is only an option among many. When you have scientific consensus, it’s always better than opinions." "If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true." "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you’re right but not enough to know you’re wrong." "What science is, what it’s not, and how and why it works… is precisely the information that should be delivered to students." "When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier." "I think the most important discipline I learned from poker was the method of decision making." "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts" "Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think." "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" "He who has not early sown in his mind the seeds of truth will hear many things that will seem true but are false and will thereby incur grave damage." "The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence" "Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so"