Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Criticism Quotes

But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

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There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

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When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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