Thursday, January 3, 2013

#871 Do it for yourself

If people are taught how to think and not always what to think, a false concept will be guarded against.  ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.  ~ Voltaire

Stop thinking and end your problems.  ~ Lao Tzu

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...  ~ A. A. Milne

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.  ~ Carl Sagan

Believing is easier than thinking.  Hence so many more believers than thinkers.  ~ Bruce Calvert

Thinking is like loving and dying.  Each of us must do it for himself.  ~ Josiah Royce

- What are the essential skills involved in thinking?
- Recollect several people who taught you how to think.
- To what extent is society indoctrinated/brainwashed rather than encouraged to think for themselves?