You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
“Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.” — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, And don't criticize what you can't understand — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's a great privilege to be asked to help the country - even if it occasionally comes with some degree of criticism. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look… — Louis Bourdaloue Copy Share Image
Do not let other people's opinions shape who you are. Remember what makes YOU happy, and remember who YOU really are. Don't… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals'… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to… — George Soros Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I do read the records reviews but more out of curiosity than anything else, I feel like we know what we want… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds… — Keith Brantly Copy Share Image
I understand how democracy works. Quite a little bit of criticism in it, which is fine. That's fine. That's part of the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Is constructive criticism really constructive? Not really. You can't make a child better by pointing out what you think is wrong with… — H. Norman Wright Copy Share Image
