Quotes About Critical

Spirituality is not meant to be a panacea for human pain. Nor is it a substitute for critical conscience. Spirituality energizes the soul to provide what the world lacks.

Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precocious little girl who said her first sentence at seven months and walked at ten months.

The purpose of studying economics is to learn how not to be deceived by economists.

I offer the yellow woman here not as the real but rather as a conceptual category and a critical agent,

Love does not require taking an uncritical stance toward the object of one's affections. In truth, it often requires the opposite. We can't be of real service to the hopes we have for places—and people, ourselves included—without a clear-eyed assessment of their (and our) strengths and weaknesses.

But, while a group can function to be better than the sum of the individuals, it doesn't automatically turn out that way. Being in a group can improve our decision quality by exploring alternatives and recognizing where our thinking might be biased, but a group can also exacerbate our tendency to confirm what we already believe

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think.

Look at what left-wing movements were like in the 19th century - they were all about progress, the engineering of the world, the reshaping of nature, and so on. It's only postwar, really, that people on the left have come to see the environment as a critical issue.

There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

Our defence capabilities are critical to securing our interests and guarding our way of life, and they must be properly funded.

Ensuring the safety and security of our monuments and infrastructure is critical to protecting our communities and the American people.

Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Our district is home to the Adirondacks, and we know firsthand that clean energy development and environmental protection are critical to our economy.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

Maine farmers are critical to our state, and they deserve an advocate in the Senate.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many more relationships, and they're all so critical.

The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.

I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical.