Critical Thinking Quotes - Page 3

What Is A Belief?

A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings. However, an intellectual persons interpretation and perspective can modify its context so he or she can sound creative and compelling when he or she educates his or her audience by forming a connection with a particular vocabulary word scholars/ innovative thinkers would use specifically in a particular field of study.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?

Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people

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

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

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.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

Stefan Molyneux

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

Stefan Molyneux

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

Stefan Molyneux

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Stefan Molyneux

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

Christopher Hitchens

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.