Critical Quotes
1238 Critical quotes by 996 unique authors
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You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
— Tony Kushner
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The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to…
— John Shimkus
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All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Let's assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and…
— Robin Hayes
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At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an…
— Oswald Chambers
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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
— Stephen Covey
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Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
— Tom Harkin
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In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would…
— Peter Senge
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This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f…
— Ray Bradbury
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A company is simply a group of people. And as a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, you have to be…
— Richard Branson
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There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn…
— Michael Pollan
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I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the…
— James Nachtwey
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Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.
— Ronald A. Heifetz
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I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about…
— David Arquette
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Individuals can make choices about their own health treatments, but it is critical public health decisions are evidence based and that consumers have appropriate evidence…
— Metiria Turei
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Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it…
— Barry Green
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Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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To even win a nomination in this country, you have to say you're a person of great faith. You have to pledge to the people…
— Bill Maher
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Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship as part of…
— Peter Drucker
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