Quotes About Critical

The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care.

Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.

My view is that no idea is above scrutiny, and no people are beneath dignity.

In places where scholars can still be stoned to death for doubting the veracity of the Koran, Gould's notion of a loving concordat between faith and reason would be perfectly delusional.

we are confronted by people who hold beliefs for which there is no rational justification

Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.

Getting the vegetables submerged is the most critical factor for success in vegetable fermentation.

Una opinión no te la pueden censurar, te la tienen que rebatir. Un intelectual sin sentido crítico no un intelectual. Es un adulador.

critical powers. You stifle your shrewdness. Before you know it you are paying a humongous divorce settlement to a woman who had more than once declared that she was an innocent who had no understanding of money matters.

Zionism, Professor Lamm argues, is different from other kinds of nineteenth-century nationalism in that it did not originate in order to bring people back to a national homeland. "It arose in order to establish sovereignty, and hence a national home, for Jews without a home … it was a rescue movement to save a people in a critical situation by concentrating it within one territory, and allowing it to take its political fate in its own hands.

Finally, it should be obvious to anyone who has read this far that Last Chance for Victory is a critical examination of General Lee and Southern leadership during the campaign. Therefore, it does not examine equally the role played by General Meade and his top subordinates; that task we leave to others.

Secular intellectuals, poor things, cannot win for losing. Even as contemporary philosophers move more and more beyond the modernist, critical, and reductionist habits of thought that grew up in the old Enlightenment, which was keyed to the old new science, the new technologies have simply created the opportunity for a new religious imagination.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition

The power of intention is a critical factor in all areas of life. Simply by intending to create synchronicity in your life, you can nurture that result.

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

Nothing is as important as the biggest day in your life.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

A trait that showed up at about this time was my tendency not to accept anything I was told until I had checked it for myself.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.