Quotes of: Critical-thinking Keyword

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and mora...

Jaron Lanier

What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don't anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors -...

Eve

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, ...

Saint Basil

I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It's not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing.

Christopher Paolini

Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first and didn't fully grasp (partly because I was far from my family in Washington, who had a very gru...

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain of power relations." In other words, we can talk about doing it for us until our hig...

BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine

Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the pri...

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

One of the most difficult defilements of the spirit to deal with is the critical spirit. A critical spirit has its root in pride. Because of the 'plank' of pride in our own eye we are not capable of dealing with the 'speck' of need in someone else. W...

The Pursuit of Holiness

Whenever a journalist wrote an article about him that was critical in nature... he would invite them to a meal and at first they assumed they were in trouble for being critical of him. But they soon learned after arrival at his house for a meal that ...

Zelda la Grange

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

I'd never criticize gay people for being gay. That would be the same thing as criticizing someone for having brown eyes, as far as I'm concerned.

The Best Years of My Life

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

Lyrical and Critical Essays

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

Soldiers' Pay

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced

Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

Parker Palmer

There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.

Roxane Gay

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Tori Amos

You can be critical and not judgmental. The two are synonyms, but not the same. The critical man analyzes people, things, and issues, very carefully. The judgmental man presents the results of his careful analysis in a manner that condemns.

Kingsley C. Okei