Critical Thinking Quotes

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." "Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." "The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice" "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" "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "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" "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance" "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think" "The unexamined life is not worth living" "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers" "I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain" "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."