Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.

~ James Hervey Johnson

James Hervey Johnson Both Sides Brainwashing Cowards Critical Examination Doctrines Dogma Examination Fools Immature Indoctrination Intelligence Laziness Rational Thought Reason Teachers Thinking

Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A “critique,” a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

~ Rudolf Carnap

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