Quotes and Sayings About Criticism

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#Spiritual #Men #Criticism

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
-- A. E. Housman

#Men #Average #Criticism

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Wise #Self #Criticism

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Angel #Differences #Criticism

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Criticism #Would Be #Circumstances

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Advice #Criticism #Mud

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Joy #Criticism #Next

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
-- Alan Barth

#Criticism #Civil Rights #Majority

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
-- Alan Barth

#Criticism #Delusion #Indispensable

You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.
-- Alan Jackson

#Thinking #Criticism #Trying

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
-- Alan Jay Lerner

#Criticism #Theatre #Coughing

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
-- Albert Camus

#Art #Real #Criticism

[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
-- Albert Camus

#Art #Judging #Criticism

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
-- Albert Ellis

#Years #People #Criticism

The price of leadership is criticism.
-- Albert J. Dunlap

#Criticism

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
-- Alex Kapranos

#Writing #Criticism #Different

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
-- Alexander Pope

#Men #Stupidity #Criticism

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
-- Alexander Pope

#Light #Criticism #Shade

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
-- Alexander Pope

#Law #Criticism #Demand

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
-- Alexander Pope

#Writing #Criticism

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
-- Alfred Binet

#Intelligent #Criticism #Four

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Appreciation #Intellectual #Criticism

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold

#Criticism #Kind #Barren

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
-- Alison Bechdel

#Criticism #Found #Stills

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
-- Allen Tate

#Criticism #Experience #May

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Years #Wife #Criticism

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Civilization #Challenges #Criticism

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.
-- Amy Adams

#Criticism #Skins #Faces

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
-- Andre Malraux

#Reality #Criticism #Painting

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Criticism #Destruction #Not Interested