If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take…

Be honest with yourself, If you want to be Honest with others.

— Prashanth Charice

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— T. S. Eliot

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— Anonymous

NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Honest criticism is not direct war on the poet but upon the poetry.

— RMKATTA

If someone feels afraid to tell you honest criticism, then you're never going to improve.

— Cole Sprouse

Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's…

— Tod Goldberg

Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

— Agnes Repplier

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

— Henry Miller

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

— Rachel Cusk

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

— Franklin P Jones

Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.

— Nargis Fakhri

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover…

— Dag Hammarskjold

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize,…

— E. B. White