Uncritical Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the… — Eric Temple Bell
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it… — Paulo Freire
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can… — John Brunner
Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought. — Stephen Jay Gould
In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. — Donald Rumsfeld
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. — George Eliot
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free… — Jon Meacham
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad… — Carl Sagan
The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman… — C.S. Lewis
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. — Camille Paglia
Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship. — Robert Webb

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