Critical Thinking Quotes

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

~ Anaïs Nin

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

~ Christopher Hitchens

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

~ Stefan Molyneux

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.

~ Peter Singer

A poet is not an apostle, he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

~ Arne Tiselius

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

~ Carl R White

Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?

~ C. Joybell C.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

~ Stephen King

A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings. However, an intellectual persons interpretation and perspective can modify its context so he or she can sound creative and compelling when he or she educates his or her audience by forming a connection with a particular vocabulary word scholars/ innovative thinkers would use specifically in a particular field of study.

~ Saaif Alam

What Is A Belief?

~ Maxime Daigle

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

~ Brian Cox

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

~ Bart D. Ehrman

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.

~ Darrel Ray

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone’s observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).

~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

~ Peter Medawar

Teach the child how to think and not what to think by equipping him with the weapons of Knowledge and Discernment.

~ Vd.

Teach the child how to think and not what to think by equipping him with the armor of Discernment and the sword of Knowledge.

~ Vd.

Scientists are aware that all the lab-rat tests in the world, once compiled, can tell us only how lab rats act when tested, and that is how we must begin to view school: all that you can learn in a school classroom is what goes on inside a school classroom.

~ Anne Elizabeth Moore

We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read.Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom is when we can read, question, adapt and apply what is relevant to the time and space in which we exist.

~ Lennox D.lampkin

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

~ Jim Al-Khalili

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief.

~ Joy Reidenberg

Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly Muslim societies for racist reasons. But if you can’t distinguish that sort of blind bigotry from a hatred and concern for dangerous, divisive, and irrational ideas—like a belief in martyrdom, or a notion of male “honor” that entails the virtual enslavement of women and girls—you are doing real harm to our public conversation. Everything I have ever said about Islam refers to the content and consequences of its doctrine. And, again, I have always emphasized that its primary victims are innocent Muslims—especially women and girls.

~ Sam Harris

Certainly we can say that the pace of modern life, increased and supported by our technology in general and our personal electronics in particular, has resulted in a short attention span and an addiction to the influx of information. A mind so conditioned has little opportunity to think critically, and even less chance to experience life deeply by being in the present moment. A complex life with complicated activities, relationships and commitments implies a reflexive busy-ness that supplants true thinking and feeling with knee-jerk reactions. It is a life high in stress and light on substance, at least in the spiritually meaningful dimensions of being.

~ Arthur Rosenfeld

All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.

~ Roshan Sharma

You need to answer questions on where, when and what to do

~ Sunday Adelaja

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

~ Naomi Wolf

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere

~ Sting

...Society needs to open its collective mind to all ideas and ideologies. It needs to give its people the chance to listen to the opinions of others, and then examine them critically instead of rejecting them prematurely. Such a creative dialogue based on positive critical thinking can enhance and develop ideas.

~ Raif Badawi

Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that says something about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.

~ Charlie Brooker

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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