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title: "4 Criticize Know Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethel-waters/many-people-know-how-to-criticize-but-few-know-how-to-praise/)

[Ethel Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethel-waters/)

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> […but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/but-all-day-long-i-would-be-training-myself-to-think-to-understand-to/)

[Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/)

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> [Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-hall/don-t-criticize-something-you-know-nothing-about-it-only-brings/)

[Laura Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-hall/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ec/laura-hall-106980_criticize_don-t-criticize-something-you-know-nothi_2510623.png)

> [When I criticize someone I always know who I am](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author-name/when-i-criticize-someone-i-always-know-who-i-am/)

[Author Name](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/author-name/)

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