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Image of Carl Sagan
Valid criticism does you a favor.
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Max Beerbohm
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
- Max Beerbohm
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Image of Victoria Woodhull
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
- Victoria Woodhull
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Image of Brené Brown
Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.
- Brené Brown
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Image of Mark Driscoll
The problem with criticism today is that is instant, constant, global and permanent.
- Mark Driscoll
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Image of Ludwig von Mises
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
- Ludwig von Mises
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Image of Bob Goff
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
- Bob Goff
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Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Image of Mark Batterson
Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
- Mark Batterson
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Image of Brigham Young
If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
- Brigham Young
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Image of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.
- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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Image of Denzel Washington
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
- Denzel Washington
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Image of Louis Pasteur
Worship the spirit of criticism.
- Louis Pasteur
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Image of Alison Bechdel
I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
- Alison Bechdel
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Image of Simone de Beauvoir
The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of George Steiner
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.
- George Steiner
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Image of Oscar Wilde
All criticism is a form of autobiography
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Suze Orman
With success comes unhelpful criticism - ignore it.
- Suze Orman
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Image of Eleanor Roosevelt
You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Mark Twain
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Scott Adams
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
- Scott Adams
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Image of John Steinbeck
Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
- John Steinbeck
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Image of Henry Miller
We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.
- Henry Miller
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Image of Jonathan Swift
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
- Jonathan Swift
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Image of Alice Walker
Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
- Alice Walker
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Image of Wole Soyinka
What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
- Wole Soyinka
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Image of Sebastian Horsley
My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but I undress for everybody else, whereas he never did that - he was never prepared to drop a bomb on everything he did.
- Sebastian Horsley
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Image of Moliere
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
- Moliere
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Image of Barack Obama
I'm not saying I'm impervious to criticism.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Mark Twain
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Pablo Picasso
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
- Pablo Picasso
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Image of Margaret Thatcher
I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.
- Margaret Thatcher
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Image of Christian Nestell Bovee
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
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Image of Christian Nestell Bovee
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
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Image of Susanna Clarke
you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.
- Susanna Clarke
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Robert Pattinson
I can't deal with criticism very well. I've already got it from one angle. I don't need it from anything else.
- Robert Pattinson
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Image of Donna Tartt
Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.
- Donna Tartt
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Image of Octavio Paz
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings
- Octavio Paz
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Image of William Carlos Williams
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
- William Carlos Williams
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Image of George Santayana
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
- George Santayana
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Deborah Tannen
In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.
- Deborah Tannen
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