Criticism Quotes
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing
Aristotle
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Robert Burns
Never criticize your spouse's faults; if it weren't for them, your mate might have found someone better than you
Jay Trachman
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley
When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would soon disappear
Dwight David Eisenhower
Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
Sir Walter Scott
Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
Samuel Johnson
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise
Unknown
Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Henry Fielding
