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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow #openmind #criticalthinking
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"Don't be a slave to your own ignorance. Know where your opinions, especially the strongly held ones, came from and be brave enough to question them." Dean Van Drasek
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"If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it." Richard Dawkins
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"Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility." Carl Sagan
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"There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true." Richard Dawkins
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"Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say." Richard Dawkins
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. Harlan Ellison #criticalthinking #knowledge #IntellectualIntegrity
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