Critical Thinking Quotes

"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons." "Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere." "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." "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" "Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." "Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." "The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking." "Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality." "Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy." "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense." "Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls." "Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous." "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."