Quote by Fethullah Gulen

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is…

— Brigid Brophy

“People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly without any…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

— Aristotle

“Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are non-coercive knowledge…

— Edward W. Said

“IT is proverbially easier to destroy than to construct ; and as a corollary of this proverb, it is easier for readers to apprehend…

— T.S. Eliot

Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there…

— Donald O. Clifton

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

— Vaclav Havel

Great things are always criticized, because they have the power to alter the perception of the world.

— Ashutosh Cheulkar

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

— Aristotle

“Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it…

— Dale Carnegie

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make…

— Henry James