Critical Thinking Quotes

Some parents whenever their children have an independent thought they wrap them up in warm ignorance and send them to bed

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A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

Theodor W. Adorno

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Treat your mind like a museum, not a warehouse

Ignassen Mather

As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and the decline of aristocracy.

Terre Thaemlitz

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.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions

Scientists are aware that all the lab-rat tests in the world, once compiled, can tell us only how lab rats act when tested, and that is how we must begin to view school: all that you can learn in a school classroom is what goes on inside a school classroom.

Anne Elizabeth Moore

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

Friedrich Nietzsche