Michael Ramirez Quotes

The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.

It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that…. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough.

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.

It blows my mind - whenever you're stuck in one place, you think this is how the world is, and then you walk out and see there's so many layers to everything.

When you build your network, keep yourself open to new ideas, concepts, and theories. Some of them may even contradict and challenge long-held points of view. This isn't beneficial only to someone in my profession, but to every line of work.

Just because something doesn't confirm your existing beliefs does not mean it's a hoax.

It's easy to talk a good game in an echo chamber, it's easy to witness to people who think exactly the same way you do, but to test your convictions by going outside your comfort zone is where the ideological battle needs to go.

I often go into the lions' den and engage with those I know oppose my views, because I want to understand what other people think.

I don't believe in being ashamed about not having read things.

I think it's a very powerful notion, the notion that our personal views, although closely held, are not necessarily right. That part of what is noble is making sure there are checks and balances and a plurality of opinions.

If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it - the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.