Closed-minded people are more likely to make statements than ask questions.

Call it habit or conditioning or socialization: The citizens of the United States have essentially forfeited any capacity to ask first-order questions about the fundamentals of national security policy.

as a society we are trained to not question the status quo.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.

perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.

It would seem in life when all is said and done that it is unwise to speak to anyone if it can be avoided.

Closed-minded people don’t want their ideas challenged.

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.