Criticism Quotes & Sayings

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~ Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting ~

Emmet Fox

~ Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own. ~

~ Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. ~

Hugo Black

~ Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism ~

Michael Scott Horton

~ Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. ~

Kenneth Tynan

~ Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. ~

Percy Bysshe Shelley

~ The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. ~

Robert E. Lee

~ In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this. ~

Wilson Mizner

~ Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~

Mary Kay Ash

~ Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ~

H. L. Mencken

~ A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her ~

Helen Rowland

~ The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism ~

Moliere, Le Misanthrope

~ The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. ~

Henri Frederic Amiel

~ Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism. ~

William G. Simms

~ That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this. ~

Mays, Willie

~ The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. ~

Clifford Geertz

~ Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination. ~

Immanuel Kant

~ The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images. ~

Camille Paglia

~ I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. ~

K. Eric Drexler

~ 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… In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy. ~

Nigel Lawson

~ Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism ~

Wendell Phillips

Willie Mays

~ Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments—crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily—not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism. ~

Karl Raimund Popper

~ Candor is the brightest gem of criticism ~

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Franz Grillparzer

~ If you can take criticism and blame without resentment, If you can face the world without lies and deceit, If you can conquer tension without medical help, If you can relax without liquor, If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, Then, you are almo. ~

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