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"A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste."	Whitney Balliett
"A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."	Richard Hofstadter
"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."	George Eliot
"Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?"	Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do."	Dale Carnegie
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do."	Benjamin Franklin
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away--and barefoot."	Sarah Jackson
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase … The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."	Frank Herbert
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."	Frank Herbert Dune
"Children have more need of models than of critics."	Carolyn Coats
"Children need models more than they need critics."	Joseph Joubert
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."	Henry Louis Mencken
"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all."	Lavina Goodell
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."	Brendan Francis Behan
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."	Eleanor Roosevelt
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."	Sir William Arthur
"God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents."	Phyllis McGinley
"He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men."	Honoré de Balzac
"He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men."	Honoré de Balzac
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Johann Kepler	John Anthony Ciardi	John Kenneth Galbraith
John L. Casteel	Joseph Addison	Joseph Joubert
Jose Narosky	Kahlil Gibran	Lavina Christensen Fugal
Lavina Goodell	Leonardo da Vinci	Lord Melbourne
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Micheál MacLiammóir	Noel Coward	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Phyllis McGinley	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Hofstadter	Robert Bridges	Robert Maynard Hutchins
Roger Anderson	Sarah Jackson	Siddha Nagarjuna
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir William Arthur	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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