Books Quote by Emile M. Cioran Download Open image “Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.” — Emile M. Cioran ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Criticism Critics Learning Misconception
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Criticism is an interesting beast. For some of us, it can be received, regardless of tone, and used to learn more about ourselves and… — Mark Brand Copy Share Image
Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Criticism is natural; it's just that you have to deal with it positively and use it to improve. — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say:… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image