Criticism Quotes

[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!

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

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

None are as offended as those who contrive offense.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.

Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

A louse in the locks of literature.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

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

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

Criticism polishes my mirror.

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.