Rose McGowan Quotes

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak.

We cannot be so scared that our ideas or opinions will not survive being tested. If you are afraid of being wrong, then you might not have a good argument.

Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

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

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Never prevent men from forming judgments according to their intellect

If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.