Criticism Quotes · Page 34

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

— David Brin

I've got a lot of criticism for not taking domestic fights but I've got my own strategy.

— Anthony Yarde

If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

— Immanuel Kant

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots…

— Sam Harris

...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;…

— Marcus Luttrell

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.

— David Beckham

I've always been faced with all kinds of criticism. People were saying, 'Oh, Shaggy is pop. He can't do dancehall,' even though…

— Shaggy

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius.…

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Rachel Cusk

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money:…

— Randall Jarrell

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

— Mel Brooks

“This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people—because, surely, Wally was nice—would say…

— John Irving

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the…

— Miguel de Unamuno

If you're not GOD, don't judge me, your opinion wasn't needed, because if you read in between the lines your past is…

— Taylor Usher

Some people in this nation believe that race is a significant factor in the constant attacks against President Obama. Others believe that…

— James A. Forbes

I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I've been hearing about criticism and negative thoughts my whole life. They say I can't do this, I can't do that, I…

— Skylerbling

There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

— Jean de La Fontaine

Uninvited criticism is insult.

— John L'Heureux

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather…

— George C. Williams

To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

— William Blake

“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.”

— Greg Carlson