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Critical-thinking Quotes

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"

"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry"

"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do"

"We only think when we are confronted with problems"

"Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility"

"Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves"

"Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all"

"The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic"

"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."

"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms "

"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry"

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

"The wise man does not believe in absolute certainty"

"Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions"

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