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

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Wole Soyinka

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
Russell Crowe

The most destructive criticism is indifference.
Edgar Watson Howe

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac Disraeli

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
Clifford Geertz

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Charles Buxton

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
Edward Sapir

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Margaret Fuller

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
Phyllis Schlafly

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison

There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.
Jo Bonner

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Stephen Spender

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
Anne Stevenson

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
Susie Bright