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Critical Thinking Quotes
Critical ThinkingPolitical IdeologySelf-IdentityUncertainty If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Critical ThinkingMindsetSelf Reflection Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Critical ThinkingCuriosityEducationKnowledgeSkepticism As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.
BalanceCredulityCritical ThinkingHuman NaturePositivity The most positive men are the most credulous.
Critical ThinkingPublic OpinionSkepticismStatistics I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
Critical ThinkingFoundations Of KnowledgeLogicPhilosophyRationality Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Critical ThinkingTruth We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
CivilizationCritical ThinkingHero WorshipMilitaryProgress There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them.
Critical ThinkingInquiryInterdisciplinary StudiesSkepticismVirtue Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Critical ThinkingEffortThinking Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Common SenseCritical ThinkingIndependent ThoughtReason Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense.
Critical ThinkingGender StereotypesHistorical MisconceptionsHumorPhilosophy Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Critical ThinkingDiscernmentInterdisciplinary ApproachTruth Vs Falsehood Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Critical ThinkingDemocracyDiscernment To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Critical ThinkingInformation EvaluationKnowledgeScience literacy Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.
ChoiceCritical ThinkingCultural ValuesEducationSociety A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
Critical ThinkingDoubtOpen-mindednessSkepticism I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
CreativityCritical ThinkingIntellectual LazinessReading Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Critical ThinkingEducationOpen-mindednessWisdom It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Critical ThinkingHistorical StrugglesHuman ProgressOvercoming SuperstitionScience and Rationality Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.
CourageCritical ThinkingIndividualityNonconformitySocial Pressure Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Critical ThinkingCuriosityEvidence-Based ReasoningIntegrityScience If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
Critical ThinkingEducationKnowledgeScienceSkepticism Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Critical ThinkingIntellectual IntegritySkepticismTruth I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
AwarenessCritical ThinkingMindfulnessPerception Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Critical ThinkingKnowledgeUnderstandingValue As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Critical Thinking The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
