Quotes about Criticism

Life is perfect for none of us. Rather than being judgmental and critical of each other, may we have the pure love of Christ for our fellow travelers in this journey through life.

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Many people criticize those who long to experience more in God, but I don't trust the ones who don't. We are not going to be kept free from deception by abandoning experience. In fact, the ones who do not hunger more for God are already deceived.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?