Censure Quote by Winston Churchill

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Fool's praise is censure

— Proverb

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.

— Joshua Kimmich

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

— Alexander Pope

It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

— Boonaa Mohammed

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