The bad plowman quarrels with his ox.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
It is easier to pull down than to build up.
He that can see a louse as far away as China is unconscious of an elephant on his nose.
He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off from old age.
To know anything about oneself, one must know all about others. There must be no mood with which one cannot sympathize, no dead mode of life that one cannot make alive. The legacies of heredity may make us alter our views of moral responsibility, but they cannot but intensify our sense of the value of […]
I have lost count of the number of dull books I have hailed as masterpieces, rather than trouble myself to finish.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Who am I to stone the first cast?
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
