"Thinking takes time(he says) whereas opinions can be reached instantly.
Indeed, they can actually be an impediment to thinking, because if you
give an opinion before you've finished thinking it through, you may not
know that that's what you think. Bad news for daily newspaper
columnists."

From Jonathan Ree on his 'freethinking' blog for the BBC:
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/freethinkinguk, and seen in 'New Humanist Nov/Dec
2006

"Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages."

Wendy Kaminer
The New Republic 14 October '96

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

John F. Kennedy
From his commencement address at Yale University,
June 11, 1962