Critical Thinking Quotes

60 Critical Thinking quotes by 52 unique authors

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 –… — 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
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… — Stephen King
If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity — Josh Lanyon
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders… — Bertrand Russell
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe,… — Peter Singer
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you.… — Howard Zinn
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. — Soren Kierkegaard
I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so… — Susan Cain
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of… — Philip Zimbardo
everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death — Thomas Bernhard
How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded… — Brewster Kahle

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