Family Quote by Sydney J. Harris

“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now…

— John Stuart Mill

“The over-whelming preponderance of people have not freely decided what to believe, but, rather, have been socially conditioned (indoctrinated) into their beliefs. They are…

— Richard Paul

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss…

— Storm Jameson

“Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking…

— L. Susan Stebbing

“Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind’s equivalent of feeding, fighting, and…

— Barry Eisler

“Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or down-right…

— Richard Paul

“Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.”

— Steve Martin

“The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much…

— T.S. Eliot

“[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely…

— René Descartes

“I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the…

— Michael Crichton

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“We must guard against the tendency to believe every thought we generate.”

— Bill Harvey