Admiration Quote by Denis Diderot

In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre,…

— John Dos Passos

I try not to get affected by criticism as it is unwanted and I can't control it.

— Ajinkya Rahane

I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I…

— Yuna

To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions;…

— Denis Diderot

It's true, I do love the semi-epiphany. For example, in "Fall Line," the character's final decision is less epiphany than imbecility. He makes a…

— Alexander Weinstein

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to…

— Jane Austen

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the…

— H. L. Mencken

Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work…

— Augustus William Hare

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply…

— Lionel Suggs

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

— Ambrose Bierce

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

— William Godwin