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Quotes about Criticism

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
— Samuel Johnson
Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We say no to sin because we are holy in Christ. We endure the criticism of those who hate us because God loves us in Christ. We endure ostracism from others because God welcomes us in Christ. We are not what we do. We do what we are. Our identity determines our activity. This was true for Jesus, and it's true for those who are in Christ. Our identity as new creations in Christ is the key to our victory like Christ.
— Mark Driscoll
Simply, a complaint attacks the problem, whereas a criticism attacks the person.
— Mark Driscoll
If the poet's description be criticized as not true to fact, one may urge perhaps that the object ought to be as described—an answer like that of Sophocles, who said that he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
— Aristotle
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
A dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn.
— John Milton
The commendation of apparent friends is more dangerous than reproach.
— Ellen White
To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
— Herman Melville
The system of Christian celebrity was not a good space for me, and it was brutal on my kids - my son in college was frequently confronted by people railing against me as a heretic.
— Erwin McManus
Heckuva job, Brownie!
— George W. Bush
TRUST AND THANKFULNESS WILL get you safely through this day. Trust protects you from worrying and obsessing. Thankfulness keeps you from criticizing and complaining: those "sister sins" that so easily entangle you.
— Sarah Young