Criticism Quotes - Page 16

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me - yes, they have even criticized me!

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and discussion to come. But whatever the outcome of ensuing criticisms or objections, The World Republic of Letters -- empire more than republic, as Casanova shows -- is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism, with which it stands comparison.

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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.

Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.

Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.