Jim Rohn Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering.

I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

Think your own thoughts.

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.