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“Because I don’t believe everything I read.”
Steven Wright
Skepticism
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Truth
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Critical Thinking
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Awareness
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Perspective
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“Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.”
Scott Adams
Skepticism
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Complexity
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Knowledge
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Wisdom
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Critical Thinking
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“We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.”
Chogyam Trungpa
Independence
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Wisdom
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Critical Thinking
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Truth
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Discovery
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“I’m always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.”
Alice Walker
Media
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Intelligence
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Awareness
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Critical Thinking
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Entertainment
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“I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.”
Alice Walker
Politics
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Leadership
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Awareness
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Racial Issues
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Critical Thinking
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“Study logic and math, because once you’ve mastered them, you won’t fear any book.”
Naval Ravikant
Logic
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Mathematics
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Knowledge
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Learning
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Critical Thinking
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“It takes a little extra intelligence for a person to look beyond what’s available in his culture.”
Sadhguru
Intelligence
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Culture
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Awareness
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Critical Thinking
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Perspective
8.
“Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.”
Thomas Carlyle
Statistics
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Knowledge
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Wisdom
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Science
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Critical Thinking
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“You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Curiosity
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Education
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Child Development
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Culture Of Learning
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Critical Thinking
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“If you’re a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you’re not going to be a good scientist.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science
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Critical Thinking
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Knowledge
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Rationality
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Truth
11.
“If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Truth
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Science
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Opinion
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Critical Thinking
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Skepticism
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“I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Critical Thinking
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Knowledge
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Truth
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Science
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Skepticism
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“There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Education
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Curiosity
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Learning
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Knowledge
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Critical Thinking
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“The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Logic
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Rationality
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Truth
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Belief
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Critical Thinking
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“Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science
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Knowledge
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Skepticism
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Truth
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Critical Thinking
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“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thinking
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Knowledge
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Wisdom
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Intelligence
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Critical Thinking
17.
“Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are only good intellectual tools.”
Francis Bacon
Science
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Logic
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Reasoning
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Critical Thinking
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Knowledge
18.
“You must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool others.”
Richard P. Feynman
Self-awareness
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Honesty
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Doubt
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Personal Growth
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Critical Thinking
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“Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, “Is it reasonable?””
Richard P. Feynman
Authority
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Reasoning
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Skepticism
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Independence
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Critical Thinking
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“No creo que cuestionar las cosas sea una enfermedad. La obediencia ciega sin cuestionamientos, es la enfermedad.”
Baruch Spinoza
Questioning
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Obedience
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Critical Thinking
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Reasoning
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Autonomy
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“We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.”
Baruch Spinoza
Truth
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Falsity
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Logic
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Critical Thinking
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Reason
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“If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.”
Charlie Munger
Self-improvement
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Rationality
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Critical Thinking
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Growth
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Wisdom
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“You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.”
Charlie Munger
Critical Thinking
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Self-Improvement
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Ideas
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Growth
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Learning
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“People calculate too much and think too little.”
Charlie Munger
Thinking
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Calculation
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People
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Wisdom
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Critical Thinking
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“Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.”
Osho Rajneesh
Intelligence
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Experience
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Self Reliance
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Critical Thinking
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Awareness
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“The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other. Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.”
Yoko Ono
War
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Peace
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Industry
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Critical Thinking
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Unity Power
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“Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.”
Jeff Bezos
Clarity
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Focus
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Obvious Truths
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Critical Thinking
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Simple Living
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“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
Leo Tolstoy
Freethinking
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Open Mind
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Critical Thinking
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Independent Thought
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Rationality
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“Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?”
Leo Tolstoy
Religion
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Faith
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Authority
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Blind Belief
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Critical Thinking
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“Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.”
Swami Vivekananda
Cultural Wisdom
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Tradition
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Knowledge
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Awareness
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Critical Thinking
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