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Critical-thinking Quotes

"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."

"It's a sign of a democratic education to seek complexity"

"Be able to notice when you're wrong and correct it, because either you have the fastest reflexes known to man, or you don't."

"Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see"

"If the mind is left out of any solution, one ends up with an insipid and uninspiring answer"

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak"

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you"

"Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves"

"It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it"

"The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions"

"When we consider the target audience of propaganda, we must recognize a natural self-defense mechanism: the critical faculty."

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

"We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it."

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