Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain!

On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes. But are these actually truths? Are our eyes really feasting upon light?...

Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational...

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

I just prefer my fiction with more teeth.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

People believe what they are told.

The art of not reading is a very important one. [...] You should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. – A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones:...

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Those who fail to think, will shrink, sink and stink.

We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read. Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom is...

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the...

Non-fiction can distort

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop - out,...

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Married people, for instance, are demonstrably happier than single people; does this mean that marriage causes happiness? Not necessarily. The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get...

A theory is like medicine or government: often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving and, on occasion, lethal. It needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have...

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

If the foundations of an ideological position are knocked out from under it, new foundations will be found, or else the ideological position will just hang there, defying the logical equivalent of the...

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a...

In order to be solved, a problem first of all has to be a problem. What we mean by this is that the translation of a vaguely stated problem into concrete terms permits the crucial separation of...

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear,...

... if one gives sufficient social power to a class of people holding even the most outlandish ideas, they will, consciously or not, eventually contrive to produce a world organized in such a way that...