66 quotes found
“We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read.Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom i...”
“Both [P. T.] Barnum and H. L. Mencken are said to have made the depressing observation that no one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American public. The remark has worldwi...”
“Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of mode...”
“One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.”
“History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not abs...”
“For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.”
“If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about...”
“Oversimplifying is the first grave mistake we make when confronted by complexity; overconfidence is the second. And there is a third: based on our overconfidence in our oversimplified conclusions, ...”
“But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.”
“No feeling is wrong. You have the right to your feelings. However, you do not need to wallow in them, and you do not have the right to act them out. The world hasn't suddenly become your punching b...”
“The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.”
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
“Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.”
“On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.”
“Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill".~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
“I believe that we are henceforth incapable of returning to an order of moral life which would take the form of a simple submission to commandments or to an alien or supreme will, even if this will ...”
“To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.”
“The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.”
“...I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so. Mind you, this isnt easy. We are so surrounded by tales of the supernatural, by the thunders of the powers to be ...”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
