Honest Criticism Quotes

#1. The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.

Dag Hammarskjold

#2. Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don't let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, "honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry." Good to remember ...

Elif Shafak

#3. Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

T. S. Eliot

#4. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

#5. Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's not going to be easier in the real world, surely.

Tod Goldberg

#6. People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

Agnes Repplier

#7. The South ought to be led, by candid and honest criticism, to assert her better self and do her full duty to the race she has cruelly wronged and is still wronging.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#8. Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Henry Miller

#9. Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Rachel Cusk

#10. National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

Corazon Aquino

#11. The illusion of confidence is far more important than actually possessing the feeling.

Aprilynne Pike

#12. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.

Herman Melville

#13. And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.

Stephen King

#14. If there's anything I can do, it's to present an alternative vision for the country.

Richard Di Natale

#15. 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

#16. It was no good; I was like a charging bull, with only red in my sight. It was pretty fucking accurate, considering I was storming toward the girl in the red jacket.

Rachel Brookes

#17. when fate gives us lemons, we should try to make lemonade, not apple juice.

Noah J. Goldstein

#18. I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

L.P. Hartley

#19. The goals for Virginia lacrosse don't change a lot from year to year. We look at the lineup, start every year on Sept. 1 with the realistic goal to play at the end of the season, the very last game. This team has the talent to be able to do that.

Dom Starsia

#20. Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

W.E.B. Du Bois

#21. Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

Gail Buckley

#22. What is uneasy when you are awake in the daylight is terror in the dark honesty of your dreams.

Deb Caletti

#23. Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

Louise Penny

#24. Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.

Oscar Micheaux

#25. Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

George Steiner

#26. What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal - these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above.

Sri Aurobindo

#27. Nothing is more common in an age like this, when books abound, than to fancy that the gratification of a love of reading is real study.

John Henry Newman

#28. It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

Igor Stravinsky

#29. Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.

Horace Greeley

#30. Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

Andrew Stanton

#31. Honest appreciation got results where criticism and ridicule failed.

Dale Carnegie

#32. The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#33. You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

Amit Kalantri

#34. NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#35. I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

Jim Valvano

#36. I don't want to sit there and be like, 'Oh, I don't care what the audience thinks.' It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.

Donald Glover

#37. But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden.

Tad Williams

#38. I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I'm very well endowed.

Bauvard

#39. An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.

Nathan Eldon Tanner