302 Quotes About Critical-thinking

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of modern knowledge, invoking us to be active participants in the crusade for equality, representation, and social justice.

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

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, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.

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

This is exactly what it means to be caught in the colonial matrix of power. It is to be constantly suffering from lack of options, and constantly finding oneself in such a position that all the choices available have already been chosen for you. As a result, you are constantly trapped and unable to think or do otherwise. You are consistently deprived of the possibility of working with other possibilities.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

I'm sorry if Fox news hasn't told you this.... that doesn't mean it's not true.

If you don’t remember the past, you don’t deserve to be remembered by the future.