“The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.”
Others on Critical Thinking
Niels Bohr
3 quotes“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to b...”
Percy Shelley
2 quotes“Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Einstein
2 quotes“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
Bertrand Russell
2 quotes“Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.”
Thomas Jefferson
2 quotes“In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning bec...”
Jorge Luis Borges
1 quote“To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.”
Confucius
1 quote“Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”
Flaubert
1 quote“Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.”
Thomas Paine
1 quote“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Adam Smith
1 quote“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 quote“It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the...”
Dan Brown
1 quote“When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes and no.Silence.”