Frame of mind Quote by Christian Rudder

“If we can stand fast while the waves of criticism crash around us, we can transcend their expectations and the way they underestimate our…

— Chris Erzfeld

“Once a structurally complete and closed system of opinions consisting of many details and relations has been formed, it offers enduring resistance to anything…

— Ludwik Fleck

“No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”

— Voltaire

“The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.”

— Susan Sontag

“As far as history and science are concerned, I'm pretty sure I can wing it. Turns out I learned more in Internet school than…

— Alyson Noel

“Upon one great class of subjects, the largest and the most weighty of them all, where the leading and determining considerations that ought to…

— William Ewart Gladstone

“Respond to critics with humility. Most people are experts in finding problems with whatever others do. That should not be a surprise to you.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“People must therefore get away from the idea that serious work is restricted to beating to death a well-defined problem in a narrow discipline,…

— David Christian

“I don’t propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles…

— Oscar Wilde

“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.”

— Bill Bryson

“This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions…

— Jack Kevorkian