Critical Spirit Quotes

• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

  Bernard Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Attitude, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole. Chapter "The Vision", 1994.

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• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892) act 3

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Live Life, Grateful

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• I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Son, Religion

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• Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Habit, Critical, Small Things

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• The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Self

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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• My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

  Ziggy Marley

  Dream, Father, World

  "Musician Ziggy Marley". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 8, 2011.

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Stars, Optimistic

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

  Jon Krakauer

  Inspirational, New Experiences, Core

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• Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Strength, Perseverance, Belief

  "Andrei Sakharov/ Biographical". www.nobelprize.org.

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• Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Yield

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• Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Loyalty, Sacrifice

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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• For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

  Wallis Simpson

  Inspirational, Life, Uplifting

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• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Real Friends, Purpose

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strength, Spiritual, Strong

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• For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

  Billy Corgan

  Levels, Littles, Reviews

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.

  Mason Cooley

  Meddling, Knows, Spirit

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• 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

  Stubbornness, Novel, Behinds

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• 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. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Forever, Important

  Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.359, PublishDrive

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• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• [About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Creativity, Science, Men

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• The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Next, Towns

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