Critical thinking is the cornerstone of intellectual growth, enabling individuals to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information effectively. Throughout history, great minds have shared wisdom through profound quotes, inspiring others to challenge assumptions and embrace independent thought. Here are 100 timeless quotes that will forever help you expand your critical thinking:
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
- “Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – René Descartes
- “To be conscious of being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” – Frank Zappa
- “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking
- “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
- “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” – Sun Tzu
- “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
- “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
- “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Unknown
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
- “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” – Anonymous
- “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
- “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt