Criticism Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is…

— Horace Walpole

Not all criticism is valuable or makes sense, but there are some, which do, and I take those very seriously.

— Akshara Haasan

“I didn’t expect you to understand me,” he answered. “With your cold American intelligence you can only adopt the critical attitude. Emerson and all…

— William Somerset Maugham

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.

— Amitava Kumar

I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I see it.…

— Bruce Cockburn

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

— Chris Martin

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

— Joseph Addison

My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own…

— Joao Magueijo

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the…

— Frank Kermode

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

— Emile M. Cioran

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

— Alice Walker