Critics Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

— Margaret Fuller

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

— Anatole France

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who…

— Plato

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but…

— Michael Faraday

Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all…

— Ben Jonson

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great…

— George Bernard Shaw

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of…

— Oscar Wilde

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after…

— Socrates

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all,…

— Jacques Derrida

“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library…

— Théophile Gautier