Top Criticism Quotes
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johann Kepler
For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
Dan Rather
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler
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W. Somerset Maugham All Criticism Quotes
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham 
75% of people like this quote
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johann Kepler
73% of people like this quote
For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
Dan Rather
69% of people like this quote
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
66% of people like this quote
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler
65% of people like this quote
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Mike Rounds
64% of people like this quote
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.
Rosanna Arquette
63% of people like this quote
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Mikhail Bakunin
63% of people like this quote
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
60% of people like this quote
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