Uncritically Quotes

#1. Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

Alice Miller

#2. The law you submit to uncritically indicates your religious commitment.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#3. A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

Glenn Greenwald

#4. Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically
to those who hardly think about us in return.

T.H. White

#5. Unk had no way of judging the quality of the information contained in the letter. He accepted it all hungrily, uncritically. And, in accepting it, Unk gained an understanding of life that was identical with the writer's understanding of life. Unk wolfed down a philosophy.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. All pain, pleasure and self-limitation either originate in the
conscious mind or is accepted uncritically from an outside source.

Derric Yuh Ndim

#7. It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.

Ayn Rand

#8. If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#9. ...no one who has ever lived through the unmasking of one ideology, taken uncritically as the truth about human life, will be quite as vulnerable to the absolutizing of another.

-Sexuality and Spiritual Growth

Joan H. Timmerman

#10. Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

Benjamin Spock

#11. Secular journalists ... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.

John Shelby Spong

#12. He saw that all the conditions of life had conspired to keep them apart; since his very detachment from the external influences which swayed her had increased his spiritual fastidiousness, and made it more difficult for him to live and love uncritically.

Edith Wharton

#13. Those who achieved power were satisfied so long as they could merely retain it, and advertise it uncritically in the conventionally self-assertive manners.

Olaf Stapledon

#14. The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community.

Joseph L. Bast

#15. I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Nick Hornby

#16. Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of "Veneration Without Understanding." Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#17. It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

Mario Bunge

#18. [I am not] one of those thoughtless people who always uncritically accept what is new as necessarily better.

Pope Benedict XVI

#19. The effort to identify the enemy as singular in form is a reverse-discourse that uncritically mimics the strategy of the oppressor instead of offering a different set of terms.

Judith Butler

#20. The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

Edwin Meese

#21. The hefty price for accepting information uncritically is that we go through life unaware that what we've accepted as impossible may in fact be quite possible.

Ellen J. Langer

#22. We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

Marshall McLuhan

#23. To operate within the matrix of
power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Judith Butler

#24. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

Lawrence Lessig

#25. When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly surprised at the weakness of his intellect.

Sigmund Freud

#26. A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

Niklaus Wirth

#27. The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

#28. Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically use words like franchise, which should be reserved for your local Burger King.

David Edelstein

#29. Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. I pulled the sheet off the bed as i stood, wrapping it around me.
He lay back and watched me go. 'Of all your dresses, that's my favorite.

Kiera Cass

#31. To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges

#32. I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#33. Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

Michael Phelps

#34. Sometimes, she worries about her mother, then she hardens her heart and thinks maybe the whole thing will be good for her. Shake her up a little. Which is what she needs. After Dad left, she just folded up into herself like an origami bird thrown into a fire. There

Neal Stephenson

#35. The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

Nikolai Gogol

#36. I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

Wilma Mankiller

#37. Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things.

Augustine Of Hippo

#38. I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#39. The team is an extension of the coach.

Don Meyer

#40. I am deeply fulfilled by all that I do.

Louise Hay