Bing Gordon Quotes

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

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.'

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

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

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.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

That process of exposure to diverse opinions isn't 'brainwashing' - it's education.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

I am a person always with an open mind.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.