Emma Chamberlain Quotes

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

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

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.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

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

Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and I feel like everyone judges people: regardless of whether they know someone or not, they have an opinion based on the persona of the person. I guess you can only have a real opinion of who they are as a person once you meet someone.

Listen, then make up your own mind.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

That's the sad thing about it, is that you don't know. And you certainly don't know when you quickly meet somebody. But even as you know somebody longer, it's really hard to know. Obviously you go on your gut feeling but that can be wrong too. ANd it's terrible to have to be wary about people, because it is not my nature, but I've been burned a few times and you just have to careful.

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.

I'm not extremely political. I think everything should be layed out and you can make your own conclusions. As soon as I feel I'm being taught something or preached something, I just glaze over it and I don't want to hear it.

I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our readers will also do, between it and dogmatism. Dogmatism has been the bane of civilization and a curse to mankind. It has degraded our sex, stifled intelligent inquiry, and persecuted every independent reformer and every noble cause.

Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

You've got to give people a fair chance of saying what they believe, and then you've got to decide, "Do you believe 'em?"

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.