Critical Thinking Quotes

"People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to." "Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people" "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." "Experts often possess more data than judgment." "The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. " "The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms " "The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding" "It is easier to macrobullshit than to microbullshit" "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." "Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable." "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"