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Critical-thinking Quotes

"I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly I think is more honorable than not to judge at all "

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."

"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong"

"When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier."

"What science is, what it’s not, and how and why it works… is precisely the information that should be delivered to students."

"The only valid tribute to thought such as Nietzsche's is precisely to use it, to deform it, to make it groan and protest"

"No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair"

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated"

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so"

"Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think."

"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them"

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

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