Quotes on Critical Spirit

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

[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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.