The Art of Clear Thinking Quotes

“Your feelings and emotions have the ability to overpower you and completely color your thinking. But that’s confusing feelings for facts. They are entirely separate things. Reality is in fact neutral.”
― Patrick King, The Art of Clear Thinking

“This is the essence of the thought experiment. Suppose this happens. What happens next? What would that necessitate? And then? And then? And then what implications would arise? And so on.”
― Patrick King, The Art of Clear Thinking

“we seek to understand, not necessarily to find a complete and final solution.”
― Patrick King, The Art of Clear Thinking

“First principles thinking is the practice of getting behind this tendency to follow, and to question everything you think is set in stone and realizing that they are probably assumptions.”
― Patrick King, The Art of Clear Thinking

“These labels, usually not carefully chosen or given much thought, go on to form your beliefs. These are hazards with relatively accurate and descriptive labels—what about when you unwittingly use labels that are ambiguous, inconsistent, or inaccurate?”
― Patrick King, The Art of Clear Thinking