Criticism Quotes & Sayings

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~ In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving. ~

William Arthur Ward

~ To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~

George Eliot (Mary Evans) 1819

~ Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader ~

John Dryden

~ I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. ~

Albert Einstein

~ The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~

Norman Vincent Peale

~ Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. ~

Frank A Clark

~ Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ~

George Eliot

~ Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. ~

Joseph Addison

~ A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. ~

Kurt Huber

~ According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ~

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

~ If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ~

Katharine Hepburn

~ I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms ~

George Eliot

~ What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ~

Octavio Paz

~ Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing ~

Aristotle

~ Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. ~

Frank A. Clark

~ Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ~

Emile M. Cioran

~ We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause. ~

Jose Narosky

~ Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive. ~

Donald Rumsfeld

~ Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it ~

Hal Chadwick

~ To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ~

Piers Brendon

~ Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ~

Franklin P. Jones

~ The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ Criticism is easy, art is difficult ~

Philippe Destouches

~ The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate ~

Samuel Johnson

~ I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist. ~

Harold Bloom

~ Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

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