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Critical Thinking Quotes

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."

― Albert Einstein

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

"Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous."

"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."

― Rumi

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."

― Pablo Picasso

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."

― Muhammad Ali

"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."

"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons."

― Sigmund Freud

"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality."

― Sigmund Freud

"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

― Tony Robbins

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."

― Thomas Jefferson

"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."

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

"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."

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