Quotes About Thinking Critically

#1. Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

Dan Barker

#2. I do believe that thinking about the world, particularly thinking critically about it, is an essential part of changing it.

Judith Suissa

#3. I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.

Sam Altman

#4. Thinking critically is a chore. It does not come naturally or easily. And if the fruits of such efforts are not carefully displayed to young minds, then they will not harvest them. Every school child must be implanted with the wonder of the atom, not the thrall of magic.

Perry DeAngelis

#5. To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

Maxine Greene

#6. The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

John Taylor Gatto

#7. Billy was unconscious for two days after that, and he dreamed millions of things, some of them true. The true things were time-travel.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#8. Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.

Michael J. Cohen

#9. If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

Bryan Stevenson

#10. What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.

Sai Baba

#11. Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism.

Karl Popper

#12. I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.

Stephen Hawking

#13. A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.

William O. Douglas

#14. Intentions. That's important in music, too. Critically important. What you're thinking about can be what you become.

Mitch Albom

#15. There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.

Chuck Hagel

#16. Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#17. If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love.

Gary L. Francione

#18. I look at everything I've done critically - but I think that's the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you're good - in a way, I don't then think you're pushing yourself.

Nicole Kidman

#19. A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

Napoleon Hill

#20. 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

#21. Mastery in work and in life is about committing yourself to being excellent in everything you do, no matter how small and no matter if no one is watching. Do you practice excellence in your most private moments?

Robin Sharma

#22. As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

Princess Diana

#23. What I think is critically important is that there are lots of studies on how prayer effects people that are ill, lots of studies, and I know in my life my prayers have been answered.

John Assaraf

#24. I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

Cornel West

#25. Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

Janet Evanovich

#26. The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That's where science starts.

Bill Nye

#27. You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.

Neil Postman

#28. Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Good satire goes beyond the specific point it's trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you're not left believing everything they're telling you.

Aaron McGruder

#30. One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

Andrew Hoberek

#31. I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?

Mark Leibovich

#32. 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

#33. Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#34. 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.

Alec Baldwin

#35. They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#36. If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

Charlton Heston