Quotes About Critical

I think satire is important because it helps us to see the world in a different way. It can challenge our assumptions and make us think more deeply about the issues that affect us all.

Reducing economic inequality and helping victims of domestic violence and child abuse are critical if we want to cut violence and crime.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Ignorance is ignorance, not a licence to believe what we like.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

By whatever means life first arose on Earth, evidence shows that it came early and flourished in abundance in complex ecosystems of unicellular life-forms. When it arrived, it began to play a critical role in preparing Earth for more life, for all Earth's future inhabitants. The next chapter explains some of the ways it served later life's needs.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

The most critical key to getting good medial care is a trusting relationship between you and your doctor.

At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you; for without critical judgement, the weapon you wield delivers – and let us not be coy here – naught but murder. And its first victim is the moral probity of your cause.

Discipline is as much facing the enemy between as the enemy before you; for without critical judgement, the weapon you wield delivers - and let us not be coy here - naught but murder. And its first victim is the moral probity of your cause.

The critical part of herself could well have sneered at the contrivance, as if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation.

neutral stability normally occurs only at transitions, at critical settings of a system's parameters (the "knobs" that control its properties). But the Kuramoto model was breaking this rule. Its incoherent state was doggedly staying neutrally stable, even as we widened the bell curve to make the population more diverse. Turning that knob over a wide range of parameters made no difference.

Faith can be a wonderful thing if it is balanced by critical thinking.

learn the clichés, doublespeak and coded jargon that the group uses to shut down critical thinking. Each group has its own buzzwords and platitudes.

Group ideology is privileged far above a member's experience, conscience, and integrity. If a member doubts or has critical thoughts about those beliefs, it is due to their own shortcomings.

Because, Lucius, without the discipline of philosophy to give rigour to their thinking, people can and will believe anything, no matter how absurd.

Anti-vaccination movements are high-pressure, highly conformist organizations in which dissenting views are discouraged. To the extent that people reject science because they wish to present a self-image as critical and skeptical, it can be useful to communicate to them the inherently skeptical nature of science and to portray antiscientific thinking as an example of unthinking conformity (Hornsey & Fielding, 2017).

As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist.

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.