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“If you're going to have a kid who engages in critical thinking, you're not going to shut them down when they ask a question. You're not going to settle for "because." You're going to encourage them to ask more. And you want them to understand how other people think.”

People Thinking Kids Settling Critical Thinking

Author:Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“The Democrat Party have no education in critical thinking or common sense or common sense perception. None of it. They just seethe when they hear this stuff because it's all creating knee-jerk reactions: "Racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe! Racist, sexist, bigot! Racist!" It's paralyzing us, folks, as a country. We are in a state of paralyses. These people are retarding our progress.”

People Thinking Country Party Common Progress Perception Democrat Common Sense Racist Critical Thinking Sexist

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.”

Thinking Different Teaching Direct Aim Election Critical Thinking

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“Legal training has been quite useful in developing critical thinking. Whether one attains it in mathematics, philosophy or law, an analytic grounding can add great value in defining and confronting complex problems, or laying out a path to implement a vision.”

Thinking Philosophy Problem Values Vision Path Training Mathematics Critical Thinking

Author:James M Strock

“In some of the classes, especially the introductory religion courses I took, the professors can veer into a particular strain of religious anti-intellectualism. Professors typically aren't given tenure at Liberty, so there's pressure to hew to the party line on religious and social issues. I didn't see a whole lot of my professors encouraging critical thinking among their students. Which isn't to say that students don't engage critical thinking skills at Liberty - just that it wasn't part of my classroom experience there.”

Thinking Religious Party Liberty Students Classroom Social Issues Critical Thinking Tenure

Author:Kevin Roose

“There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.”

People Thinking Country Bigs Forget Levels Taken Streets Media Needed Critical Critical Thinking Naps Main Street

Author:Alec Baldwin

“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.”

Thinking Inspirational Age Business Vision Knowledge Progress Skills Demand Degrees Intelligent Critical Logical Capability New Age Constructive Critical Thinking Deductions Synthesis

Author:Li Ka-shing

“In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.”

Thinking Has Beens Ideas Facts Government School Policy Creation Critical Indian Public School Critical Thinking Discouraging Public Education

Author:Russell Means

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”

“It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.”

Thinking World Way Attitude Creative Curiosity Critical Mindset Curious Critical Thinking Mental Attitude

Author:Adam Savage

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”

Numbers Judging Clever Fatigue Critical Thinking Peer Pressure

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.”

Source: Works

“Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.”

Thinking Kids Courses Teach Strategy Obstacles Critical Resilience Critical Thinking Resourcefulness

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks”

Thinking Firsts Persons Ideas Dangerous Intellectual Passionate Critical Bells Hook Critical Thinking This Society

Book:Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

Source: Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”

Religious Dangerous Certainty Critical Thinking Inbreds

Author:Bart D. Ehrman

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”

Thinking Mean Hard Use Brain Responsibility Talking Feminism Hard Work Independent Instinct Self Determination Strong Women Critical Thinking Independent Thought Independent Thinking Grappling

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.”

Thinking World Light Change Challenges Teaching Humility Conflict Window Self Discovery Assumption Critical Thinking Open Minded Thoughts And Thinking

Author:Alan Alda

“One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.”

Today Political Community Differences Consciousness Support Majors Institutions Climate Critical Collectives Critical Thinking

Author:Bell Hooks

“Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.”

Believe Belief Opinion Agreement Critical Thinking Belief Systems Four Agreements

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”

People Thinking World Important Self Country Obsessed Individualism Critical Thinking Time To Think

Author:Bell Hooks

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

Thinking Mind Lying Purpose Opinion Essence Independent Skepticism Critical Thinking Overthinking Independent Thought Independent Thinking Thinking Mind Mind Thinking

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“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.”

Writing Looks Book Done Steps Tree Kings Forests Editing Critical Thinking Identifying Scanning

Author:Stephen King

“If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity”

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Book:Come Unto These Yellow Sands

Source: Come Unto These Yellow Sands

“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“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.”

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Book:Applied Ethics

Source: Applied Ethics

“History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

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

Poet Devil Apostles Critical Thinking

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

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

Thinking Children Education Teach Evidence Atheist Your Children Disagree Critical Thinking Evaluate Indoctrination Teaching Children

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.”

“Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.”

“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”

Ifs Thinking Ridiculous Critical Thinking

Book:The Loser: A Novel

Source: The Loser: A Novel

“To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.”

Thinking Simple Answers Complexes Critical Thinking

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Our minds are lazier than our bodies.”

Thinking Mind Body Retirement Our Thoughts Critical Thinking Thinking Mind Thoughts And Thinking Mind Thinking

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“And this is why studying the history of psi is important. People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for centuries. Human experiences that continue to be repeated throughout history and across cultures, are not due to ignorance or lack of critical thinking, and demand a serious explanation.”

People Thinking Humans Has Beens Important Culture Study Century Ignorance Serious Demand Critical Dues Explanation Human Experience Critical Thinking

Book:Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality

Source: Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality

“These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.”

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired.”

Thinking Mean Critical Critical Thinking Suspension

Author:Bill Maher

“There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.”

Thinking Critical Islamic Critical Thinking

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.”

“I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.”

Thinking World Self Eye Suffering Challenges Responsibility Compassion Habit Critical Evolve Assumption Vegetarian Vegetarianism Veganism Critical Thinking Personal Responsibility

Author:Michael Greger

“Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they'll need to compete in the global economy.”

Thinking Needs Helping Use Dream Reality Ability Watches Technology Economy Students Skills Unique Excited Critical Teamwork Collaboration Critical Thinking Visionaries Global Economy

Author:Michael Dell

“Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.”

Thinking Use Problem Brain Creative Keys Survival Critical Problem Solving Critical Thinking Brain Power Creative Problem Solving

Author:Richard Branson

“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.”

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Author:Darrel Ray

“In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.”

Thinking May School Opinion Creation Students Evolution Exercise Majors Critical Primaries Theme Rejects Topics Critical Thinking Creation And Evolution Secondary School

Author:Eugenie Scott

“FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.”

“We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.”

Thinking Enough Too Much Critical Substance Critical Thinking Presenting Premium

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.”

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

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