Martie Maguire Quotes

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

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

I love to doubt as well as know.

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

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

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.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

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

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

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

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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.

Question everything!

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.