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Critical-thinking Quotes

"Thinking is the hardest work there is which is probably the reason why so few engage in it"

"Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them"

"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."

"The goal of education should be to enable people to become active and engaged citizens, questioning and organizing against injustices."

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises"

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking"

"Five percent of the people think ten percent of the people think they think and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think"

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt."

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines"

"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"

"Either you repeat conventional doctrines without thought, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things"

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition"

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