Quotes with criticism

  • Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
  • We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
  • Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
  • When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
  • Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
  • I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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  • Winston Churchill 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
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Walter Benjamin The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Joseph Addison Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Octavio Paz What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 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
    German musician and composer
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Baltasar Garzon All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.
    Baltasar Garzon
     
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  • Bell Hooks An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Kenneth Tynan Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
    Kenneth Tynan
    English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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  • Ben Shapiro By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Billy Corgan Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American film screenwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American screenwriter and songwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Zeuxis Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
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  • Samuel Johnson Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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