302 Quotes About Critical-thinking

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 brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

The more emotionally satisfying an idea is the more it should be critically regarded, because we as humans are prone despite contrary facts to believe our desires are true.

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

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

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.

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

Even a book that is made up of only untruths can greatly improve us intellectually.

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