Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Kingsley Amis

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
Paul Samuelson

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Charles Buxton

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.
Scott Hamilton

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.
Dusty Springfield

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
Phil Donahue

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
Bainbridge Colby

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Walter Benjamin

The author is aware that the essence of the Christian faith is perfectly independent of his criticism. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
David Friedrich Strauss

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

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
Wim Wenders

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
Bjork