David Brin Quotes

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

I was not used to criticism.