Wisdom Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

— Winston Churchill

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Fool's praise is censure

— Proverb

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

— Alexander Pope

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has…

— Tryon Edwards

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

— Thomas Jefferson

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

— Joseph P. Farrell

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

— Leonardo da Vinci