"... the important thing is to, first..." - Quote by George Carlin
... the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you.
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More on Critical Thinking
“Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.”
“When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.”
“People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.”
More on Truth
“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”
“One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.”
“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.”