Tony Goldwyn Quotes

I'm a fan of robust debate, and I'm not averse to engaging in the odd ad hominem attack myself.

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

I don't believe anything unless I understand it inside out. And even if I understand something, it is not uncommon that I disagree with accepted view (even if it's a Nobel laureate).

I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the facts, once you get the data and once you're able to review.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think you took the right approach, then you just absorb the criticism, but you don't change your mind.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

Cynics criticize and winners analyze.

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.