The unexamined thought is not worth thinking. Metacognition is the highest form of intellectual hygiene.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Our thinking is filtered through layers of assumptions we rarely question.

The first principle of metacognition is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

Knowing how we know is more important than what we know. The map is not the territory, and our thoughts are not reality.

The mind is an excellent servant but a terrible master. Metacognition is the art of becoming the master of your mind.

We are not thinking our thoughts; our thoughts are thinking us. Until we learn to observe the thinker.

The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life. And the quality of your thinking depends on how well you think about your thinking.

Metacognition is the difference between being lost in thought and observing the process of thought itself.

The most dangerous cognitive blind spot is the belief that you don't have cognitive blind spots.

We don't know what we don't know, and we don't know how much we don't know about what we think we know.

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size. Metacognition ensures the door stays open.

Thinking about how you think is like cleaning the lens through which you view reality. Everything becomes clearer.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Metacognition shatters this illusion.

Your mind is a factory of thoughts. Metacognition is quality control for that factory.

We are what we think about all day long. But who is this "we" that observes the thinking?

Metacognition is the art of standing outside your own mind and watching how it works, without judgment, only curiosity.

The thoughts you believe to be your own are often just echoes of things you've heard, read, or been taught to think.

True intelligence is not just knowing the answers - it's knowing how you arrived at them and being able to question your own reasoning.

Metacognition turns thinking from something that happens to you into something you do with intention and awareness.

The most valuable skill you can develop is the ability to think about how you're thinking while you're thinking.

Your mind is not a container to be filled, but a process to be understood. Metacognition is that understanding.

We don't see the world as it is, but as we are - and metacognition is the tool that lets us see how we are seeing.

The highest form of knowledge is knowing how little you truly know, and how your knowing apparatus works.