Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Judging Quotes, Criticism Quotes

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

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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

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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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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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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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Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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

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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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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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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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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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

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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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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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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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A louse in the locks of literature.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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