302 Quotes About Critical-thinking

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

Thinking (especially, critical) is an energy-sapping, calorie-sapping process!Now, since time immemorial, calories have been considered a premium for survival, and therefore, we are always in a calorie-storage mode!No wonder, there’s dumb everywhere around you! And followers too! People will leave the thinking to you and will blindly follow you... Also, therefore the argument ‘that it must be true because most people say it’, doesn’t hold much water!

The way most people use and are used by their minds gives substance to the belief that we are barely evolved apes.

Writing is an admixture of exposition, introspection, observation, deliberation, rumination, reflection, clarification, meditation, and expression. Perhaps no other activity offers a thoughtful person with as precise a means to inspect and marshal together their fragmented thoughts than writing.

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."(History Will Teach Us Nothing)

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]

A man who never realizes the power of critical thinking will keep painting slave chains which enslaved him.

All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.