Critical Quotes
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.
A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.
Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.
Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.
Power is not just for TV sets and charging mobile phones. This electricity is critical to the industrial development of this area. If there is electricity, small scale industry will grow.
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.
The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.
I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.
It's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning; it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system.
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.
Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.
With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.
By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.
To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.
Figuring out who you are and being true to yourself is not just important, but it is critical to being authentic.
For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.