Joel Salatin Quotes

Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.

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

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

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

For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

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

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.

I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

Don't fall in love with everything that you may have read and everything that you may have heard from any political leader, including myself.

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it.

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

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

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

Influential people aren't buffeted by the latest trend or by public opinion. They form their opinions carefully, based on the facts. They're more than willing to change their mind when the facts support it, but they aren't influenced by what other people think - only by what they know.

Think your own thoughts.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.