Critical thinking

From Wikipedia
"The positive habits of mind that characterize a person strongly disposed toward critical thinking include a courageous desire to follow reason and evidence wherever they may lead, open-mindedness, foresight attention to the possible consequences of choices, a systematic approach to problem solving, inquisitiveness, fair-mindedness and maturity of judgment, and confidence in reasoning.[15]
When individuals possess intellectual skills alone, without the intellectual traits of mind, weak sense critical thinking results.
Fair-minded or strong sense critical thinking requires intellectual humility, empathy, integrity, perseverance, courage, autonomy, confidence in reason, and other intellectual traits.
Thus, critical thinking without essential intellectual traits often results in clever, but manipulative and often unethical or subjective thought."