Quotes of: Critical-thinking Keyword

Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with...

Michael Eric Dyson

I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.

Thomas Kinkade

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

Following a meeting with , Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that was deeply religious.

Hitler

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

The Intentional Fallacy

Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

If You Ask Me

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

Killosophy

It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

Killosophy

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

Killosophy

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

Relentless

A critical point: Is an inter-phase between crisis and normalcy, life and death, danger and safety, failure and success

Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture

Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book of The Faerie Queene.

Spenser's Faerie queene: An interpretation

Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

The Marvelous Land of Oz

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Liberalism and Its Critics

Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul.

Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast