302 Quotes About Critical-thinking

Think More Not Less.

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

I hope, wherever we are, we start to decolonize knowledge production through rekindling that deep and strong spark between the heart and the mind; through understanding that the path to objectivity goes through the painful corridors of subjectivity.

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 at the forest.

Thinking resembles swimming in the ocean. Some prefer calm shoreline waters, others with a taste for adventure, go deeper.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.