Quotes About Critical

Ideologically disciplined thinkers, especially the more gung-ho ones, often give the appearance of being critical thinkers as they go around deftly applying the official ideology and confidently reporting their judgments. The fact that professionals are usually more well-informed than nonprofessionals contributes to the illusion that they are critical thinkers.

What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is the only proven arbalest against superstitious thinking, or lackadaisical axioms.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Whatever happened, January would mark the point of no return.

The first few minutes were crucial—and they were maddening

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

The true power of science lies in its ability to challenge assumptions, dismantle misconceptions, and pave the way for new frontiers of understanding.

Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.

Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.

The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.

Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

This is the difficulty with not picking up points away from home: the home games become that much more critical.

What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.

I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty.

I think it accrues to Hawaii's benefit that I have friends in Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin. We're already geographically isolated, so it's really critical that we don't become politically isolated.

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.

I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer.