Criticism Quotes

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

What I created got abominated.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

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

I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.