Dixie Lee Ray Quotes

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

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.

Nobody should believe something just because an intelligence agent says it.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Don't believe everything you read.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin;

Don’t believe everything the professors tell you. Get your own information on your own terms.

If you're just a follower, you never know why you are doing something. Then you can't know if something is good or not. How would you know that what you thought is right, if you didn't think it?

I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.

You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.

When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate — may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical — always think for yourself.

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Don't blindly follow any leader.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Don't listen to experts.

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.