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Critical-thinking Quotes

"To ask the right question is far more important than to receive the answer"

"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds"

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance"

"By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own"

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."

"We've moved away from reason and logic."

"Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement."

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience."

"The problem with ideologies is that they fail to take into account the inherent complexity of human nature."

"Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant."

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open "

"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."

"To understand is to discover, or reconstruct by rediscovery, and such conditions must be complied with if in the future individuals are to be formed who are capable of production and creativity and not simply repetition"

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