Critically Quotes
158 quotes by 148 authors
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There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never…
— Alec Baldwin
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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically…
— John Boorman
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I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument…
— Alain de Botton
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate…
— John O. Brennan
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I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
— Chelsea Clinton
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How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is…
— Lee Ann Womack
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It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices…
— Paulo Freire
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive,…
— Colin Powell
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Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate,…
— Karl Popper
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[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,…
— Carl Sagan
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of…
— Alain de Botton
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My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being…
— Karl Popper
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Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the…
— Kevin Rudd
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The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of…
— Freeman Dyson
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We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not…
— Chris Hedges
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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic…
— Denis Waitley
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History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be…
— Robert Stack
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