Quotes of: Critical-thinking Keyword

We naturally think from our own perspective, from a point of view which tends to privilege our position. Fairness implies the treating of all relevant viewpoints alike without reference to one's own feelings or interests. Because we tend to be biased...

The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact op...

Will Self

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

Miuccia Prada

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

E. M. Forster

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

Juno Temple

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.

Andrea Riseborough

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production...

Blythe Danner

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

Salman Rushdie

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

Russell Simmons

Study so that you are able to meet arguments of your opponents. Equip your ideology with supporting arguments. If you oppose a prevailing belief, if you criticize a great person who is considered to be an incarnation, you will find that your criticis...

Bhagat Singh

If God has given you a mission, you must be tough enough to handle what people say and still not be distracted while doing what you were created to do. Are you tough enough? God and the enemy know the truth about you, and remember even great people d...

Bishop T.D. Jakes

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Maurice Sendak

I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board.

Marian Keyes

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

Pierre Salinger

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

Susan Rice

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

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

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

K. Eric Drexler

I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. ...

Wendy Davis