Critical thinking quotes per Linda Elder and Richard Paul (Video)

30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living Through Critical Thinking: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life, Revised and Expanded, is one of the most enchanting philosophical endeavors to ever be consumed by humans.

This Amazon.com delight brings us back to earth by teaching a different and more effective manner to consider our circumstances. This short list of quotes, by itself, does not do justice to this paprous/electronic treat.

  • Act out when you don't get what you want. If questioned, look indignant and say, "I'm just an emotional person. At least I don't keep my feelings bottled up!"
  • Critical thinking is the disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances.
  • Don't question your relationships. You then can avoid dealing with problems within them.
  • Focus on the negative side of life. Then you can make yourself miserable and blame it on others.
  • Only when you are faced with the absurdity of dysfunctional or even pathological thinking and can see it at work in your life do you have a chance to alter it.
  • Surround yourself with people who think like you. Then no one will criticize you.
  • The problem is that human thinking is often flawed.
  • The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thinking.
  • The quality of your relationships is determined by the thinking you do in those relationships.
  • To develop as a thinker, you need to work daily to bring what is unconscious in your thinking to the level of consciousness.
  • Verbally attach others who criticize you. Then you don't have to bother listening to what they say.
  • ...when we behave irrationally, our behavior usually seems reasonable to us.
  • You must engage in critical thinking.
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