Quotes About Critical

The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that "in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis".

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Un traduttore qualificato dovrebbe essere in grado non solo di tradurre letteralmente, ma di tradurre i termini, anche concettuali, di una determinata cultura nazionale nei termini di un'altra cultura nazionale, cioè un tale traduttore dovrebbe conoscere criticamente due civiltà ed essere in grado di far conoscere l'una all'altra servendosi del linguaggio storicamente determinato di quella civiltà alla quale fornisce il materiale d'informazione.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Don't believe anything I've told you—merely because I said it.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

They are important, you understand, without being interesting.

there is a felt gap here-the gap between knowledge and wisdom- that cannot be closed through empirical enquiry. That is, the question of the meaning of life in not reducible to empirical enquiry. This felt gap between knowkedge and wisdom is the very space of critical reflection. In philosophy, but also more generally in cultural life, we need to clip the wings of both scientism and obscurantism and thereby avoid what is worst in both Continental and analytic philosophy.

Some men, instead of building their existence upon the indefinite unfolding of time, propose to assert it in its eternal aspect & to achieve it as an absolute. They hope, thereby, to surmount the ambiguity of their condition. Thus, many intellectuals seek their salvation in either in critical thought or creative activity.

More and more, as I think about history, I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

More and more, as I think about history," he pondered, "I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever." *

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever.

It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working assumptions.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

There are fears that we would strongly assert, and honestly believe, we have outgrown which, nevertheless, still lie dormant in all of us, ready to be aroused by a careless, unexpected word used at a critical moment.

Charlotte possessed, in reality, a mind of more than ordinary dimensions. It is true that feminine dissimulation, combined with the flattening influence of marriage, had subdued its activities; yet her rational part continued to exercise, in discreet silence, both passive intelligence and a critical faculty.

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

The person who is easiest to brainwash is the person whose beliefs are based on slogans that have never been seriously challenged.

Destiny is ever critical to all human lives and future. I mean, destiny has a decisive importance in the success or failure of every human undertaking or endeavour including yours. And so, quest for your God-given destiny and strive to fulfill it at all cost. -Emeasoba George

The great bulk of treaties could wait a little without harm, and in the very few cases when urgent haste is necessary, an autumn session of Parliament could well be justified, for the occasion must be of grave and critical importance.