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Critical-thinking Quotes

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

"He who learns, but does not think, is lost!"

"Religion teaches you to be satisfied with non-answers. Science is about the opposite"

"There is no well-demonstrated reason to believe in God. If you were inculcated with it as a child, you might have a belief that a certain book is true and God's word. Letting go of that is not easy, but you should do it"

"I have discovered that the world has survived by questioning other people's thinking"

"I'm very much a believer in the audience being left with some things to chew over, some things to be questioned."

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry"

"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead"

"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy"

"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"

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

"For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong"

"Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it."

"It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid."

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