Quotes About Critical

Shouldn't children be taught critical, sceptical thinking from an early age? Shouldn't we all be taught to doubt, to weigh up plausibility, to demand evidence?

But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it.

God, in the sense defined, is a delusion; and, as later chapters will show, a pernicious delusion.

If Jellicoe had suffered overwhelming defeat, nothing could have saved the Allies. As Churchill confirmed, he was "the one man who could have lost the war in an afternoon.

Siempre habrá imbéciles como esos, tragándose dogmas enteros para no tener que pensar por sí mismos.

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

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

Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.

To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.