Browsing Topic Best Criticism Quotes

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

To announce there must be no criticism of the President or that we are to stand with the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby’s ability to influence political contributions.

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

Anti-Semitism does not signify opposition to Semitism. There is no such thing. It is an expression we Jews use effectively as a smear word used to brand as a bigot, like you guys, anyone who brings criticism against Jews. We use it against hate-mongers.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

At some point, the establishment narrative managers are going to realize that criticizing ‘Bernie bros’ for being angry isn’t an effective strategy, because the answer coming back is only ever going to be ‘Oh you have no fucking idea.’

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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

The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

There is no such thing as constructive criticism.

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.