Criticism Quotes - page 3

I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division. (Ricky Hatton)
But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion. View quote
William James
This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. View quote
Phil Donahue
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. View quote
Susan Sontag
The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life. View quote
Henry James
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism. View quote
Henry James
Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. View quote
Philippe Néricault Destouches
I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists. (Robert Benchley)
Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
... there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. View quote
G. H. Hardy
In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, "What's he doing hitting the government?" View quote
Billy Crystal
We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness. View quote
Edward Said
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition. View quote
Joseph Addison
The preceding criticism ... justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated” celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality. View quote
Georges Bataille
Mere abuse is no criticism. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly. (Roger Ebert)
The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history. View quote
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement. View quote
Dale Carnegie
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure. View quote
Djuna Barnes
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. View quote
George Santayana