Thought for the day

[essentialsaltes]

Who was it who first told you that you shouldn't believe something just because someone told you it?

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[swmartin.livejournal.com]

While I'm sure that the message was imparted indirectly from many sources (including the ubiquitous "if all your friends jumped off a cliff..."), the first explicit statement I can remember which refuted arguments from hearsay, authority, etc. was in an essay by Isaac Asimov.