Pastoral Resources

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.