#critical

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

#matrimony #period

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. ↗

— Marie Louise

#admission #am #blind #convinced #demoralized

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief. ↗

— Joy Reidenberg

#science #science

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works. ↗

— Jim Al-Khalili

#science #science

It was around this time that I started thinking about how skin color defined class. The cowboy movies that fueled the goodness of ‘White’ reinforced attaching ‘darkness’ to a class. I finally took notice that the crayon color called ‘flesh’ did not match mine. ↗

— Luis Quiros

#inspirational #race-relations #social-justice #inspirational

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#dogma #freedom-of-thought #independent-thought #inspirational #politics

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional. ↗

— James Cromwell

#delusional #factory #farm #hypocritical #opposed

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#gain #general #greedy #hypocritical #mankind

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#critical #difficult #i #me #my own

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#extraordinary #eye #find #heroes #i