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We Need Both Information And Thinking. Information Is No Substitute For Thinking And Thinking Is No Substitute For Information.

Everyone Has The Right To Doubt Everything As Often As He Pleases And The Duty To Do It At Least Once. No Way Of Looking At Things Is Too Sacred To Be Reconsidered. No Way Of Doing Things Is Beyond Improvement.

(...) Being Right All The Time Acquires A Huge Importance In Education, And There Is This Terror Of Being Wrong. The Ego Is So Tied To Being Right That Later On In Life You Are Reluctant To Accept That You Are Ever Wrong, Because You Are Defending Not The Idea But Your Self-esteem. (...) This Terror Of Being Wrong Means That People Have Enormous Difficulties In Changing Ideas.

Humor Is Probably The Most Significant Characteristics Of The Human Mind. Far More Significant Than Reason. In Fact, Reason Is Actually A Very Cheap Commodity.

To Develop Thinking As A Skill, It Should Be Deliberate, Focused, Confident, And Enjoyable.