Don't Believe Everything You Think Quotes

“A belief is essentially a point of view that we hold to be true.”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society, it is belief.
-George Bernard Shaw”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“we have a penchant to pay close attention to information that comes to us in the form of a story or personal account.”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“It's the quality of our reasons for believing that make us intelligent and thoughtful individuals,”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“a skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate the evidence before believing. In its truest sense, a skeptic is someone who keeps an open mind, but requires rigorous investigation before choosing to believe something.”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“critical thinking and decision-making skills, which could counteract our natural tendencies to err, are typically not taught in our schools.”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“we form many incorrect beliefs because we have natural tendencies to evaluate evidence in a biased and faulty manner.”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“Pseudoscientists typically focus on only one explanation for a phenomenon,
quickly brushing aside alternative explanations. And, in their desire to support their belief, they are willing to accept flimsy, oftentimes anecdotal, evidence.”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“Given the proliferation of pseudoscientific thinking that permeates the media, we are increasingly susceptible to thinking like a pseudoscientist-which contributes profoundly to errors in our beliefs and decisions.”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“Much of what is reported on TV and other media outlets is actually pseudo or junk science, which is not real science, but is passed off as such.”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“a skeptic's mantra is "extraordinary beliefs require extraordinary evidence.”
― Thomas E. Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.’ - Bertrand Russell”
― Thomas Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“However, wanting something to be true doesn’t make it true, and wanting to believe is no basis for accepting a belief.”
― Thomas Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

“Don't believe everything you think.”
― Thomas Kida, Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking