Criticism Quotes - Page 18

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Whatever you do, you need courage.

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Methodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in the way our culture conceives of homosexuality, represents an advance not only in scholarship but in cultural criticism as well.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

None are as offended as those who contrive offense.

We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.