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What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical. — Cliff Richard

Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation. — Stefan Molyneux

The lack is not in intelligence, which is in plentiful supply; rather, the scarce commodity is systematic training in critical thinking. — Carl Sagan

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized — Friedrich Nietzsche

If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable. — George Orwell

P14 - People educate each other through the mediation of the world — Paulo Freire

When a crowd adopts a point of view en masse, all critical thinking stops. — William Powers

Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa

Job creation is important I think, but it's not the critical issue for Republicans. — Greg Gutfeld

Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment. — Pearl Zhu

I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers. — Maureen Corrigan

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte

It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then. — Angela Thirkell

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. — Bryant McGill

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most. — Penn Jillette

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. — Alan Sokal

Command, deprived of personal judgment, can win no battles. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Asking questions were the most important thing. — Franz Kafka

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design. — Edward De Bono

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. — Richard Dawkins

You cannot grow if you are not Thinking — Andrea L'Artiste

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business. — Richard Branson

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking. — Tariq Ramadan

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. — Edward Abbey

Academic library collections are designed to support critical thinking, skepticism about the known, and curiosity about the unknown. — Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness. — Naomi Wolf

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical. — Gerhard Casper

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

time is the best teacher; patience is the best lesson — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power. — Chris Paine

Critical thinking is a lost 'art' that has yet to be found, if it is even being looked for. — R. Alan Woods

The comprehensive mind is always dialectical. — Plato

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person]. — Darrel Ray

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue. — Mostafa Kamal Tolba

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the invaluable mental power we call judgment. — Sam Wineburg

Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills. — Bryant McGill

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement. — Os Guinness

(The historian) was able to disapprove without being astonished. She could reject and still understand. — Sam Wineburg

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking. — Michael R. LeGault

I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass. — Drew Houston

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions — Sunday Adelaja

Merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd. — Adam M. Grant

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

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills. — Travis Nichols

I'm afraid of; that one day, I will only see more and more vanities in the world. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it. — Pauline Baynes

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty. — Bart D. Ehrman

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism. — Andy Stanley

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity — Josh Lanyon

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument. — Christopher Hitchens

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies. — Kedar Joshi

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything. — Kevin DeYoung

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious. — Stefan Molyneux

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind — Marc Benioff

Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process. — Pearl Zhu

You know, I don't believe that religions are religions. No, I believe they are philosophies with some good ideas and some fuckin' weird ones. — Eddie Izzard

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted. — Harold Holzer

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. — Katha Pollitt

I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control. — Seth Rogen

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense. — Peter Slezak

A book can tell me anything it wants to, but I sure as shit don't have to believe it. — Tiger Gray

I learned the difference between critical thinking and being just plain critical. — Sarah Bessey

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft

It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available. — Anne Elizabeth Moore

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker

I think talking's important. I think aspirations are critical. — Hillary Clinton

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious. — Ellen Goodman

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

Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death — Thomas Bernhard

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time. — Don Meyer

If 'truth' is an 'unveiled reality,' then my truth may not be your truth yet! — Evinda Lepins

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away. — Andrea L'Artiste

Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking. — Marty Rubin

Critical Thinking narrows and creative thinking expands, but they must work in tandem for problem solving and decision making. — Pearl Zhu

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

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

The day he is out of baseball will be the day he starts to think about what comes next. By then, it may be too late. — Jim Bouton

Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better. — Richard W. Paul

It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need. — Pearl Zhu

To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. — Pearl Zhu

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system. — Miguel Ruiz

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. — Frank Herbert

Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves. — Ted Cadsby

This dramatic increase in the speed of information and the precipitous decline in critical thinking have been disastrous. — Bronwen Dickey

Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. — Evgeny Morozov

If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school. — David Halberstam

Holistic Thinking is a combination of analysis, Systems Thinking, and Critical Thinking — Pearl Zhu

Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love. — Debasish Mridha

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking — Kenichi Ohmae

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress. If the children are our future, then critical thinking must be their guide. — Dale McGowan

I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking. — Lil B

The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them. — Tom Heehler

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills. — Ken Ham

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it. — Bryant McGill

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions. — Napoleon Hill

You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment. — Mortimer J. Adler