Critical Thinking Quotes

Most popular critical thinking quotes

Most people would sooner die than think, and often do. - Bertrand Russell quote.
Most people would sooner die than think, and often do.

cynical funny

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling when we ought to be thinking, and thinking when we ought to be feeling. - John Collins quote.
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling when we ought to be thinking, and thinking when we ought to be feeling.

human nature feelings

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. They seem to insist on somebody else doing their thinking for them. - Thomas Edison quote.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. They seem to insist on somebody else doing their thinking for them.
The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from whom it comes. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from whom it comes.

reason

It's bad to have an opinion you're proud of if you can't state the arguments for the other side better than your opponents. This is a great mental discipline. - Charlie Munger quote.
It's bad to have an opinion you're proud of if you can't state the arguments for the other side better than your opponents. This is a great mental discipline.

opinions

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. quote.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

curiosity

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. - Theodore H. White quote.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

originality

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. - Henry Ford quote.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

funny

Opinions should be formed with great caution—and changed with greater. - Josh Billings quote.
Opinions should be formed with great caution—and changed with greater.

opinions

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy quote.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

opinions

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. - Warren Buffett quote.
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

opinions public opinion

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke quote.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

thinking reading

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. - Christopher Morley quote.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

books reading

You have to think for yourself. It always amazes me how high IQ people mindlessly imitate. I never get good ideas talking to other people. - Warren Buffett quote.
You have to think for yourself. It always amazes me how high IQ people mindlessly imitate. I never get good ideas talking to other people.
Warren Buffett U.S. News and World Report, June 1994, p. 58; Andy Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight. - Warren Buffett quote.
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
Warren Buffett “Warren Buffett Talks Business,” University of North Carolina, Center for Public Television, Chapel Hill, 1995

writing

One must learn to think well before learning to think; afterward it proves too difficult. - Anatole France quote.
One must learn to think well before learning to think; afterward it proves too difficult.

thinking

MISSING LINK

Man's a kind
of Missing Link,
fondly thinking
he can think.

funny

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion. - Thomas Sowell quote.
It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

facts

It is lacking in critical thinking to think that studying philosophy will improve your critical thinking.

philosophy