What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
You can make anything by writing.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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