Criticism Quotes

Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me - yes, they have even criticized me!

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.