Critic - Criticism Quotes

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have no time for criticizing others. They’re too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

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.

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.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.