In all of history, we have found just one cure for error – a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
Don’t criticize What you can’t understand. (Robert Zimmerman)
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.
Critics!… those cut-throat bandits in the path of fame.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Blame is safer than praise.
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, and be each critic the good-natured man.