302 Quotes About Critical-thinking

If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always be in danger of becoming slaves to the ideas and values of others due to our own ignorance.

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you'd give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.

Emigrare è un diritto, fuggire in massa dalle bombe e dalla miseria una neccessità.

a lot of people have died because they read a book the wrong way

If all of these nuts could just make phone calls it could spread insanity oozing through telephone cables...

To become unique is to challenge the very environment (status quo) you are experiencing.

The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough” of science or technology) is so lucrative and all-justifying as to foreclose any possibility of an interest in prevention.

Critical thinking is often very uncomfortable, at least in my opinion. You have to reevaluate yourself, which means that, heaven forbid, you might be wrong sometimes. Most people don't like neutral. They want you to have an opinion. And I've always been of the mind that opinions are only useful if you're willing to change them very rapidly. I feel like the stronger your opinion, the weaker you should hold it.

a very specific kind of nonsense