Criticism Effectiveness Quotes

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

If rehearsed eye-rolls and sneers and armchair psychology worked, and were interesting, Fox wouldn't be number one.