Critical Thinking Quotes

Critical Thinking Quote of the day

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Teach the child how to think and not what to think by equipping him with the weapons of Knowledge and Discernment.

Teach the child how to think and not what to think by equipping him with the armor of Discernment and the sword of Knowledge.

You must be able to say "I understand, " before you can say "I agree, " or "I disagree, " or "I suspend judgment.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion.

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

Some parents whenever their children have an independent thought they wrap them up in warm ignorance and send them to bed

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available.

...when we cease asking questions, when we stop being self-critical, and when we no longer engage with others, then we surrender our ability to grow--to progress. Let's begin the conversation.

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

It's ok to follow a leader with a strong positive agenda, but by no means should you forget to take your critical thinking with you.

Actions & statements made on the basis of critical analysis & discernmentare not the same as divisiveness. Know the difference.

All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

You need to answer questions on where, when and what to do

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.

Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself.