If you have no critics, you likely have no successes.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
Having for this purpose considered many expedients, I find in the records of ancient times, that Argus was lulled by music, and Cerberus quieted with a sop; and am, therefore, inclined to believe that modern critics, who, if they have not the eyes, have the watchfulness of Argus, and can bark as loud as Cerberus, […]
It is… the task of criticism to establish principles; to improve opinion into knowledge; and to distinguish those means of pleasing which depend upon known causes and rational deduction, from the nameless and inexplicable elegances which appeal wholly to the fancy, from which we feel delight, but know not how they produce it, and which […]
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error – a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
Don’t criticize What you can’t understand. (Robert Zimmerman)
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
