Top 36 Quotes About A Critical Spirit
#1. Beware of building your faith on experience, or your life will not ring true and will only sound the note of a critical spirit.
Oswald Chambers
#2. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#3. Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
Friedrich Schiller
#4. The man bobbed toylike in front of him, meanwhile digging into his pocket as if scratching at a familiar micro-organism that possessed parasitic proclivities that had survived the test of time.
Philip K. Dick
#5. That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.
Steve Eisman
#6. We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.
Ali Al-Naimi
#7. Jesus wanted the twelve leaders to remember the example He left just hours before crucifixion. He wanted them to understand that the servant spirit is critical to the development of spiritual leaders.
Teresa Hampton
#8. It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
W. H. Auden
#10. I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.
Kevin McCarthy
#11. Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction
Renae A. Sauter
#12. Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.
Pete Sampras
#13. A blast, an acceleration, the distillate, the spirit, the history, the weaponized soul of convulsive beauty went critical.
China Mieville
#15. Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit daughter of Heavenly Father who is destined to play a critical part in the onward movement of the gospel kingdom.
Sheri L. Dew
#16. Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.
Christopher Hitchens
#17. A stickler hallmark is that those who speak or write differently can't merely be wrong; they must be depraved, too.
Robert Lane Greene
#18. Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
Martin Parr
#19. A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#20. The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.
Edward Sapir
#21. A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Winston Churchill
#22. 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
#23. True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.
Gichin Funakoshi
#24. I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.
Shinya Yamanaka
#25. The light of revelation does not descend on us perpendicularly from above; it comes through worldly media by the power of God's Spirit, who enlists our participation in the process of responsible interpretation and critical appropriation.
Daniel L. Migliore
#26. Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game ... One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.
Tom Seaver
#27. It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
Mark Hyman
#28. Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
Mark Batterson
#29. The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
#30. The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it contains discrepancies, some non historical legends, and polemics.
Marvin Perry
#31. The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.
Mason Cooley
#32. More and more, as I think about history, I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
Sinclair Lewis
#33. We need to create the kind of kingdom-shaped culture within our churches that constantly shines the light of Christ wherever these false gods exist in our own affections.
Russell D. Moore
#34. The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V.S. Pritchett
#35. If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
Gautama Buddha
#36. We're the dead. There's no one else now. There's the past-dead and the future-dead. Corpses and corpses-to-be.
Rick Yancey
