THE 30 BEST QUOTES ON CRITICAL THINKING FOR NEW MANAGERS

Critical thinking plays a pivotal role in enhancing decision-making and problem-solving processes.

It helps Leaders and Managers to evaluate information objectively, consider multiple perspectives, and analyse complex situations more effectively.

Enhancing your critical thinking skills means being able to advocate your ideas and opinions, present them in a logical fashion, and make decisions for improvement.

By improving your critical thinking you can make connections between logical ideas to see the bigger picture.

In this post I have compiled a list of my favourite quotes on critical thinking to inspire you to cultivate critical thinking as a skill for your professional development.

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THE 30 BEST QUOTES ON CRITICAL THINKING FOR NEW MANAGERS

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

Confucius

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

Richard Branson

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”

Anaïs Nin

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.

Adrienne Rich

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

William James

“When your mind is full of assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs, it has no penetration, it just repeats past impressions.”

Sadhguru

The capacity to innovate – the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life – and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

Tony Wagner

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

Albert Einstein

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

Mark Twain

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.”

Francis Bacon

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Aristotle

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”

Jean Piaget

“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 .

Adrienne Rich

“My father used to say, ‘Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.”

Desmond Tutu

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for critical thinking.”

Leo Tolstoy

“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it is like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”

Elon Musk

“Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

Steve Jobs

“We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.”

Howard Zinn

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.”

Anatole France

“Critical thinking requires us to use our imagination, seeing things from perspectives other than our own and envisioning the likely consequences of our position.”

Bell Hooks

“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.”

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

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

Christopher Hitchens

“Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in.”

Daniel Levitin

“We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable things’ because when things become ‘unthinkable,’ thinking stops and action becomes mindless.”

William Fullbright

“A mind stretched by new ideas never goes back to its original dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

Albert Einstein

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.”

Max Beerbohm

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

A. Milne

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

Naomi Wolf

“Critical thinking is certainly a ‘skill’ but when possessed as a mindset–a playful and humble willingness–it shifts from a labour to an art. It asks, ‘Is this true? By what standard?”

Terry Heick

“People can be extremely intelligent, have taken a critical thinking course, and know logic inside and out. Yet they may just become clever debaters, not critical thinkers, because they are unwilling to look at their own biases.”

Carol Wade

“I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions…Don’t take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can’t. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.”

Noam Chomsky

“Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn’t measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem-solving, creativity, or curiosity; yet, those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.”

Randi Weingarten

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