Critical Method Quotes

#1. The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Paul De Man

#2. The necessity for rational critique was increasingly felt in the tenth century, when the idea of a double truth became widespread: one for internal use and the other to be upheld outside the group; the old critical method was no longer sufficient, because it was known that a witness could lie.

Abdallah Laroui

#3. If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Carl Sagan

#4. There are two types of pain: pain that hurts you and pain that changes you.

Brett Hoebel

#5. I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

Russell Brand

#6. I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

Joseph O'Neill

#7. My experiences with the older audience and, selectively, the people I hang out with or run into, they all want to see Arnold [Schwarzenegger] kick some ass.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#8. When you start replacing facts with feelings, you disturb the equilibrium between right and wrong, confusing them as one and the same while encouraging more destructive behavior. As a stigma is erased, a behavior becomes more prevalent.

Greg Gutfeld

#9. Let us be frank: provoking military-political instability and other regional conflicts is also a convenient way of deflecting people's attention from mounting social and economic problems. Regrettably, further attempts of this kind cannot be ruled out.

Vladimir Putin

#10. I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine.

Joshua Bell

#11. I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

Zoe Sugg

#12. ... Weber insists that the value of science is always to be questioned and not simply presupposed... He is... critical of the presupposition which underlies Strauss' position, namely that scientific reason is necessarily of value.

Nicholas Gane

#13. Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

Chris Tomlin

#14. Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

Stefan Molyneux

#15. Evil cannot be vanquished with a sword, and darkness cannot be defeated in battle but only by shining a bright enough light.

David Zindell

#16. Part of the success of the tobacco industry in purveying this brew of addictive poisons can be attributed to widespread unfamiliarity with baloney detection, critical thinking, and the scientific method. Gullibility kills.

Carl Sagan

#17. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

Carl Sagan

#18. Making love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea.

Kenneth Rexroth

#19. A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

Os Guinness

#20. being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism

Jill Blackmore

#21. Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique," a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

Robert Frost