Quotes About Criticism

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Everybody doesnt have to like your material - just somebody who can write checks that dont bounce.

They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk.

For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.

I'm not so good at interpreting poetry. When I read a poem, I respond to it in one of two ways: "Wow, this is great!" or "God, this is awful!" I have no other responses.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

Varias veces he sido censurado por faltas que mi censor no tuvo el ingenio o la energía de cometer.

Sin duda la primera sátira fue hecha por venganza. Utilizarla para el mejoramiento del prójimo, contra los vicios y no contra los viciosos, es ya un pensamiento domesticado, enfriado, deglutido.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

Furthermore, unless Jesus had some interpretation for his own death, it is difficult to explain how the theology of atonement arose in the early church. Long ago, Schweitzer criticized Wrede's nonmessianic theory on the grounds that resurrection would never constitute Jesus as Messiah in the mind of the church,5 and the validity of this criticism still stands.

there's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was I' their boots.

Her style betrays a self-satisfied exaggeration of her aptitudes." (In reference to Vice President Harris)

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal. But, if they on they are exempted, they become the subjects of just suspicion, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.]

Dogmatism is thus the dogmatic procedure of pure reason without previous criticism of its own powers, and in opposing this procedure, we must not be supposed to lend any countenance to that loquacious shallowness which arrogates to itself the name of popularity, nor

Con las piedras que con duro intento los críticos te lanzan, bien puedes erigirte un monumento.

People who read mainly the Grounding and the Critique often criticize Kant for having his head in the clouds and for not being convincingly capable of dealing with concrete cases. A reading of the Metaphysics of Morals will show anyone how unfounded such criticisms are.

Criticism is not a Popperian quick kill, by refutation. Important criticism is always constructive: there is no refutation without a better theory. Kuhn is wrong in thinking that scientific revolutions are sudden, irrational changes in vision. The history of science refutes both Popper and Kuhn: on close inspection both Popperian crucial experiments and Kuhnian revolutions turn out to be myths: what normally happens is that progressive research programmes replace degenerating ones.