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Criticism

«Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.»
«Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting»
Author: Emmet Fox (Author, Lecturer) | About: Criticism | Keywords: boasting, criticism, indirect
«Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.»
«Children need models rather than critics.»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | About: Children, Criticism | Keywords: models
«Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.»
«A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her»
«Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader»
«A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.»
«Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown»
«Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand»

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