Top Critical Thinking Quotes

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

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

Certainly we can say that the pace of modern life, increased and supported by our technology in general and our personal electronics in particular, has resulted in a short attention span and an addict...

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

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or i...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution...

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

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.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

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

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

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

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

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.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

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

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

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