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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... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

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The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.

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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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Blame is safer than praise

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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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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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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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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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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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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