Comment: This quote highlights the importance of self-awareness and challenging one's own biases in order to truly think critically. It warns that intelligence and knowledge of logical reasoning alone are insufficient - a willingness to examine one's prejudices and preconceptions is essential for genuine critical thinking.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.
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Conversational Leadership Workshop
In-person, 7–11 September 2026
Warbrook House, Hampshire, UK
In-person, 7–11 September 2026
Warbrook House, Hampshire, UK
We are living and working in conditions of uncertainty, complexity, and rapid change. This week-long workshop offers a space to practise Conversational Leadership as a shared, lived experience.
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