Critical Thinking Quotes

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality" "It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others." "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead" "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon" "Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" "It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry" "Expertise is the mantra of the mediocre." "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves" "Question everything" "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed" "There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear." "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself." "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" "Either you repeat conventional doctrines without thought, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within—not without." "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free" "Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?" "Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise." "Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines" "Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question"