Quotes About Criticism

St John Philby was a notable scholar, linguist, and ornithologist, and he did achieve fame of a sort, but he might have found more lasting appreciation had he not been so profoundly irritating, willful, and arrogant. He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised. He was equally swift to give and take offense and ferociously critical of everyone except himself.

Economists are criticized for not being able to predict the future, but, because the data are incomplete and subject to revision, we cannot even be sure what happened in the recent past. Noisy data make effective policymaking all the more difficult.

I could never decide whether Tim's dry sense of humor was a defense mechanism or whether he was as truly immune as he seemed to the stress and criticism that came with his high-profile jobs.

Larry had been critical of some of our actions as well,

Economists are criticized for not being able to predict the future,

A wave of criticism followed,

Foreign officials joined in the criticism.

In choosing Tim, the president-elect showed that he was willing to take some political heat to get the adviser he wanted.

I worried that the criticism would affect morale within the Fed, so I met with employees to make sure they had the information they needed to respond to questions from friends and neighbors.

Our September rate cut drew the usual mix of praise and criticism.

writers sneered at it, without actually taking a stand for or against. The

left's favorite three lines of attack are (1) you're stupid; (2) you're mean; (3) you're corrupt. Sarah

Now, twenty years later, Candice Bergen, who played Murphy Brown, admitted Quayle was right – but at the time, Quayle was running for re-election, and so he had to be wrong.

I liked George W. Bush, but his second term was a disaster area. So was much of his first term. I don't feel the necessity to defend his Iran policy, because it was terrible. Period. Ronald Reagan was not a god. He himself would have said that. Don't follow people. Follow principle.

When someone slanders you because you happen to disagree with them about global warming or the government shutdown, that's bullying.

Conservatives get trapped in this gambit routinely, because they figure that the enemy of their enemy is their friend: if the left is attacking someone, he must be worth defending. But that's not true. I liked George W. Bush, but his second term was a disaster area. So was much of his first term. I don't feel the necessity to defend his Iran policy, because it was terrible. Period.

You know he's going to call you a racist, because he always calls his opponents racist.

As a general matter, the left's favorite three lines of attack are (1) you're stupid; (2) you're mean; (3) you're corrupt.

They are interested in castigating you as a nasty human being because you happen to disagree. This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you. And

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author

No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.