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🤔 The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Bertrand Russell

🤔 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci

🤔 We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas. Howard Zinn

🤔 Barn’s burnt down – now I can see the moon. Mizuta Masahide

🤔 Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right. Henry Ford

🤔 Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity. John Dewey

🤔 Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

🤔 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein

🤔 The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Albert Einstein

🤔 Don’t waste your time on jealousy, sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. Mary Schmich

🤔 When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anaïs Nin

🤔 I can change the story. I am the story. Jeanette Winterson (from The Powerbook)

🤔 I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it is like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there. Elon Musk

🤔 I am but a student… a willing student. Rosemary Altea

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🤔 We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system. This is why it’s so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth (such as intelligence agency or a community of scientists) or to produce good public policy (such as a legislature or advisory board). Jonathan Haidt

🤔 You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair. Chinese Proverb

🤔 An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t. Anatole France

🤔 Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles! Sarah Harmer (from Dandelions in Bullet Holes)

🤔 People can be extremely intelligent, have taken a critical thinking course, and know logic inside and out. Yet they may just become clever debaters, not critical thinkers, because they are unwilling to look at their own biases. Carol Wade

🤔 Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit…what a ride! Hunter S. Thompson

🤔 Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Daniel Levitin

🤔 Find God — he isn’t hiding from you, you’re hiding from him. Paramahansa Yogananda

🤔 The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. Jean Piaget

🤔 I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac

🤔 The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne

🤔 I just wish people would realize that anything’s possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try. Terry Fox

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🤔 My father used to say, ‘Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. Desmond Tutu

🤔 Even if you are on the right track, you’ll still get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

🤔 Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. Adrienne Rich

🤔 Take one step to the side and it’s all absurd. Leonard Cohen (from Beautiful Losers)

🤔 Critical thinking requires us to use our imagination, seeing things from perspectives other than our own and envisioning the likely consequences of our position. Bell Hooks

🤔 Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. Allen Ginsberg

🤔 We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable things’ because when things become ‘unthinkable,’ thinking stops and action becomes mindless. J. William Fulbright

🤔 There is nothing permanent except change. Herodotus

🤔 The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. Christopher Hitchens

🤔 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. 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, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society. If a society succeeds in this, that society is about to perish. The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it—at no matter what risk. This is the only hope society has. This is the only way societies change. James Baldwin