Critical thinking Quotes

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself." "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" "Either you repeat conventional doctrines without thought, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within—not without." "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free" "Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?" "Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise." "Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines" "Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question" "It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it" "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" "The only way to be responsibly is individually and collectively to make decisions for yourself, using your own intelligence and understanding. " "The secret ingredient for success in science is the ability to ask good questions." "I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world" "Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility"