Communication Quote by Immanuel Kant

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with…

— Henry David Thoreau

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

— W. H. Auden

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other…

— Arlene Croce

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps…

— Samuel Johnson

Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.

— Jennifer Egan

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

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

— Eugene Delacroix

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.

— Publilius Syrus

There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson