Criticism Quotes

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself.

Any criticism of someone you love is hard to take.

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

When the critics come around it's always too late.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

There is a certain justice in criticism.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

Time is the only critic.

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns

Critique by creating.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.