Critical Thinking Quotes

Critical Thinking Quote of the day

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

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.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

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

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

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

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired.

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

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.

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

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

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

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

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

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.

I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking.

Critical thinking is what leads to the next breakthroughs in any area.

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

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

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

I think talking's important. I think aspirations are critical.

I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

I think whenever you cast someone, someone's going to be critical about it.