Critical Thinking Quotes

"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any." "Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable." "Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists." "Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting." "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" "No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific concrete form is a very essential element in thinking" "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education." "Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes." "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough to be true." "Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education" "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." "Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds" "The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making." "Reflective thinking turns experience into insight " "There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance" "If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life." "The most thought-provoking thing is that we are still not thinking." "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"