Quotes about Criticism

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

People want you to fail.

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

It was no ordinary DESIRE that survived disappointment, discouragement, temporary defeat, criticism, and the constant reminding of waste of time. It was a BURNING DESIRE! AN OBSESSION!

All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. Man's boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back laden with sickness and sorrow.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

I will be the happiest if TikTok is banned. They mock someone like me most on that platform.

All he did from freshman year through sophomore was react -- sneer, laugh, dismiss, find fault, demean -- a young man's version of critical thinking.

Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape.