Susan Stebbing Quotes on Mind

Quotes

• Attributed to Susan Stebbing:

  “Logic is the art of clear thinking.”

• Attributed to Susan Stebbing:

  “To think clearly is the duty of a citizen.”

• “I am convinced of the urgent need for democratic people to think clearly without the distortions due to unconscious bias and unrecognised ignorance. Our failures in thinking in part due to our faults which we could to some extent overcome were we to see clearly how these faults arise.”

  As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), Preface

• “As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), Preface”

  I am convinced of the urgent need for democratic people to think clearly without the distortions due to unconscious bias and unrecognised ignorance. Our failures in thinking in part due to our faults which we could to some extent overcome were we to see clearly how these faults arise.

• “...we easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call ‘Potted Thinking’.”

  As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 63

• “As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 63”

  ...we easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call ‘Potted Thinking’.

• “...potted thinking is easily accepted, is concentrated in form, and has lost the vitamins essential to mental nourishment.”

  As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 63

• “As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 63”

  ...potted thinking is easily accepted, is concentrated in form, and has lost the vitamins essential to mental nourishment.

• “As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 100”

  We must face the unfortunate fact that we are moved to the acceptance of beliefs by factors that are wholly irrelevant to their truth.

• “As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 153”

  There are many ways of being wrong, but only one way of being right.