Do Not Criticise Quotes

#1. Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

Abhishek Bachchan

#2. Do not criticise others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no matter of books and beliefs, but of spiritual realisation.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer without bodyguards can hardly be considered serious. A bad review is the least of our problems.

Hanif Kureishi

#4. As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?

Margaret Hughes

#5. Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

Edward De Bono

#6. We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

Ai Weiwei

#7. It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

Thomas Heatherwick

#8. In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

Joanne Harris

#9. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Rowan Atkinson

#11. But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

Arne Jacobsen

#12. Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Idries Shah

#13. In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.

Hideo Kojima

#14. Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

Shania Twain

#15. Take risks, fall, get hurt and then take more risks. Stay away from those who affirm truths, who criticise those who do not think like them, people who have never once taken a step unless they were sure they would be respected

Paulo Coelho

#16. It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

John Malkovich

#17. You have a personal legend to fulfil, period. It is of no matter if others support you, or criticise you, ignore or tolerate you. You are doing that because that is your destiny on this earth, and the source of any joy.

Paulo Coelho

#18. Never ever let a stupid criticise you. And as we already know, everyone is stupid.

Sarvesh Jain

#19. I haven't got a problem with scrutiny. If it gets hot in the kitchen, don't cook a meal. People should be able to criticise us - it's completely appropriate.

Kerry Stokes

#20. You are bound to go up and down, just as I did in my youth, but do keep your clarity of mind, and if fools or sages dare to criticise don't blame yourself too much.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don't agree with, like bombing.

Noam Chomsky

#22. When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

Sri Chinmoy

#23. It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

Tim Hunt

#24. People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

Noel Clarke

#25. It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!

Ricky Gervais

#26. Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. Don't criticise them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances." Yet

Dale Carnegie

#28. We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Ani DiFranco

#29. Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

Joseph Joubert

#30. Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.

A.S. Byatt

#31. I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see.

Asmaa Mahfouz

#32. Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.

Leon Brown

#33. If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

Tacitus

#34. If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

Clive Sinclair

#35. I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

Roxanne McKee

#36. A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

Swami Vivekananda