Critical Thinking Quotes

60 quotes by 52 authors

The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that… — Massimo Pigliucci
I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they… — Derek Bok
Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking… — Derek Bok
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is… — Edward de Bono
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical — Boris Yeltsin
In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. — Donald Rumsfeld
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical… — Li Ka-shing
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not… — Russell Means
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin
It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and… — Adam Savage
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness. — Naomi Wolf
I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just… — Bell Hooks
There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty. — Bart D. Ehrman
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own… — Adrienne Rich
One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness â€“… — Bell Hooks
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think… — Bell Hooks
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. — Christopher Hitchens

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