Criticism Quotes
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism
Wendell Phillips
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Henry Steele Commager
National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services
Corazon Aquino
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it
Hal Chadwick
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
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
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance
Harold Macmillan
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
