Critical Thinking Quotes

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

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

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

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

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

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.

Treat your mind like a museum, not a warehouse

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

What Is A Belief?

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

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

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

As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and the decline of aristocracy.

The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.

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

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people

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.

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions

All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.

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

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

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.

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.

It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need.

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

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

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

...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.

I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

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

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

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

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

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.

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

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

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