302 Quotes About Critical-thinking

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.

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

Our books can know and remember for us, but cannot think for us.

We are oversupplied with people and books that make us know more, but are undersupplied with those that make us think and live better.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Thinking on your own terms is a critical part of letting go of your biases, but it takes digging deep and it requires piecing together the thousands of tiny truths to form original and fact-based opinions.

Learning, thinking, and writing should not be about accumulating knowledge, but about becoming a different person with a different way of thinking. This is done by questioning one’s own thinking routines in light of new experiences and facts.