Critical Thinking Quotes

"Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them" "People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to." "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" "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." "Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous." "Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls." "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense." "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." "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." "Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality." "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." "Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." "The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking." "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." "Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."