Rational Criticism Quotes

#1. Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

Karl Popper

#2. Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

Mario Bunge

#3. it was the rupture of the community that opened the way to rational criticism; but often it was reckoned that rational criticism was valid only for others, whereas the first criterion - that of testimonial criticism - would suffice for one's own party.

Abdallah Laroui

#4. Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

Susanna Clarke

#5. Lord, forgive the times I tried to read your mind.

Keith Green

#6. The more people marginalize the true God of the Bible the more chaotic things become.

Tony Evans

#7. My book might be seen as a search for lower consciousness, an attempt to remove the patina of abstraction or glassy-eyed piety from religious words, by telling stories about them, by grounding them in the world we live in as mortal and often comically fallible human beings.

Kathleen Norris

#8. The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

Bill Bryson

#9. Temperance is love in training.

Dwight L. Moody

#10. Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. Arab culture both in its classical expression and in the most influential aspect of its present-day expression is opposed in almost every particular to liberal culture

Abdallah Laroui

#12. The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

Giordano Bruno

#13. A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

Jack Falahee

#14. Give your body and mind to worldly enjoyments, and the world will destroy them both. Devote them to God and his service, and you will enjoy bodily health, peace of mind, and spiritual joy.

Swami Prabhavananda

#15. Rational truth - and all truth is rational - is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.

R.G. Collingwood

#16. In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

Oscar Wilde