Critical Thinkingl Quotes & Sayings

Analyzing dreams is much like walking on water. There are a limited number of people who do it well. — Lois Greiman

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If a day goes by that I'm not on television, I don't look at it as a lesser day, nor do I look at changing from a news world to a sports world as any sort of step other than a step in a new direction. — Josh Elliott

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual's decision whether and when to pray. — Barbara Brandriff Crabb

-a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo. — Douglas Coupland

The young specialist in English Lit, ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong. — Isaac Asimov

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head. — Ryan Lochte

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal. — Pete Docter

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it. — Louis De Bernieres

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. — Ernest Cline

He was no longer an individual, functioning solely to satisfy his personal needs. Something now bound him to every other man and woman in this hangar. All — George Lucas

When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up. — Ice Cube

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life — Christopher Paolini

Do not think you need necessarily have as fine swords and clothing as your neighbor. As long as they are not disreputable, they will do. And if you borrow and so lose your independence, you will be despised. — Hojo Soun