Critical Thinking Quotes

"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." "Thinking is the hardest work there is which is probably the reason why so few engage in it" "Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education" "Having the ability to change your mind is crucial." "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition" "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence" "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous." "The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any." "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another." "The power to question is the basis of all human progress" "The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done" "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do" "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." "Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things"