Friedrich Nietzsche Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of…

— Samuel Johnson

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

— George S. Patton

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics…

— Satchel Paige

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

— Roger Ebert

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and…

— Virginia Woolf

Blame is safer than praise

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics…

— Anonymous

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

— Jean Baudrillard