Critical Thinking Quotes

“As Stephen Covey (1992) puts it: I have long advocated a natural, gradual, day-by-day, step-by-step, sequential approach to personal development. My feeling is that any product or program—whether it deals with losing weight or mastering skills—that promises “quick, free, instant, and easy” results is probably not based on correct principles. (p. 29)”
― Richard Paul, Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life

“To effectively take command of our mind, we must develop the ability to (1) monitor the mind’s tendency toward egocentric or irrational thinking, and (2) attack it with corrective rational thought”
― Richard Paul, Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life

“and pain. Critical thinking is the disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances.”
― Richard W. Paul, Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life