3 Karl Popper Quotes on Critical thinking

Karl Popper quotes on critical thinking

3. If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

4. Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

24. The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.