Critical Quotes

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

It's ok to follow a leader with a strong positive agenda, but by no means should you forget to take your critical thinking with you.

Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.

Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.

Beware of those who speak negatively about everything and everybody. A negative person will never say a positive thing about you.

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

Think More Not Less.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it.

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

For now, we live in the mall, but I think it's closing soon.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.

If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.

I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion.

Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.

It is much better to be addicted to the Word of God than to be in a critical condition because you didn’t pray

Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.

Actions & statements made on the basis of critical analysis & discernmentare not the same as divisiveness. Know the difference.

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.

It’s not just all physicalI’m the type who will get oh so critical

Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep.

The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery

The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery"James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

...so individuals have their flesh cut and pulled, surgery companies proclaim it as an empowering choice, and the stifling cultural ideals about women's appearance are left unscathed

Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.

The Fed's independence is critical.