Quotes About Criticism

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me quit reading this. 'Cause I'll stab everybody."

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with himself? ). Rather, it is the man who continues to love the person who has criticized him.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

The Police Minister's toilet chided him

Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.

Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you." Eliza could not help laughing.

For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticise another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behaviour—you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another. Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy.

Indeed, upon learning of a 1931 book entitled One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,†† he responded that if he were wrong, then only one would have been enough.

upon learning of a 1931 book entitled One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,†† he responded that if he were wrong, then only one would have been enough.

If you're not being criticized, you're probably not doing anything exceptional.

You can't bring an accusation against a pastor simply because you do not like him.

totally incompetent blowhard, an idiot and a fool.

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil.

No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there was nothing whatever good about it. This position is absurd.

autocríticos y demasiado blandos hacia los pueblos que habían subyugado: Hay ingleses que se reprochan haber gobernado mal el país. ¿Por qué? Porque los indios no muestran entusiasmo por su dominio. Afirmo que los ingleses han gobernado la India muy bien, pero que su error ha sido esperar entusiasmo del pueblo que gobiernan.