Alan Moore Quotes

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

I'm always like that about everything. When I try to do something, I always think, "What is the best way to do this?" Instead of taking what everyone else says and how it has been forever, it's faster for me to try myself. Of course I listen to what everybody says, and at first I'll try what people say, but I always come back to trying it my way.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible - without questioning it. And this was the beginning of the scientific method. This is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. I think this made Leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of God's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the Bible on faith.

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.