Samuel Alito Quotes

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

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

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.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

I've learned to keep my mind open to ideas from any source.

Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

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.

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.