The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

I am such a political person.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Facts are stubborn things.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Trust, but verify.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Information is not knowledge.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

You can’t trust very many people.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.