Quotes About Criticism

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

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

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.

He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others.

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

The origin of criticism lies in an innocent, heartfelt kind of question, one that is far from simple and that carries enormous risk: Did you feel that? Was it good for you? Tell the truth.

This state of wondering paralysis cries out for criticism, which promises to sort through the glut, to assist in the formation of choices, to act as gatekeeper to our besieged sensoria.

the essence of criticism is conversation - a passionate, rational argument about a shared experience

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

He only has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Soccer writers seemed as starved for entertainment as art critics, anything vaguely enjoyable gets promoted to the level of genius.

_Not really liking it much_ is a precondition of art criticism of all kinds.

Commentary by J.-P. Quélin, food critic for Le Monde). [New York and London chefs] are cooking, he says, at a level of originality that defies judgment, defies criticism, defies the grammar of cuisine. (This I think is true. When I took my brother to L'Arpege for his birthday we got fourteen -small- courses ... that made even the best of the old cuisine look like sludge.)