“Honest communication, even when it stings emotionally, is the root of productive problem solving.”— Howard Schultz, amazon.com
“You can’t only absorb the ideals of a feminist world view through shows that espouse them— often, there are more lessons to learn about womanhood on shows where the women (or, more typically, the men) are behaving in ways that proliferate misogyny in one way or another.”— Allison Williams, amazon.com
“A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined. We must think critically, and not just about the ideas…”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"”— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com
“I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him.”— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”— Garry Kasparov, twitter.com
“There are nowadays so many ways of accessing information on the Internet without ever coming across the informed contribution of journalism. It is so important, then, that our children - all of our citizens - be encouraged to think critically rather than merely reproduce the information pushed towar…”— Michael D Higgins, irishtimes.com
“A new politics of fear, resentment and prejudice against those who are not ‘like us’ requires the capacity to critique, which an early exposure to the themes and methods of philosophy can bring.”— Michael D Higgins, irishtimes.com
“But the more Vox persists, the less hope there is for American politics. The Vox model is premised on the idea that people shouldn’t think for themselves, that the important parts of political thought and decision-making should be outsourced to experts. Inevitably, these experts will produce solutio…”— Nathan J. Robinson, currentaffairs.org