Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They’re there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can’t do it themselves.
I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have no time for criticizing others. They’re too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.
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.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
