(1692 quotes found)
“The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.”
Dalai Lama
“Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.”
Dale Carnegie
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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”
George Bernard Shaw
“We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe”
Michel de Montaigne
“It is easier to be critical than correct.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her”
Helen Rowland
“They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'”
Oscar Wilde
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”
Winston Churchill
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