I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure. — Djuna Barnes
Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own. — Arabic Proverbs
Criticism is something we can avoid easily
by saying nothing, doing nothing,
and being nothing. — Aristotle
No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. — Tilopa
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. — Henry Miller
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude. — Mencius
Criticism should be a casual conversation. — W. H. Auden
Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all. — Herbert Marcuse
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. — Edmund Burke
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. — Immanuel Kant
Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself. — Iyanla Vanzant
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical. — Winston Churchill
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career. — Dale Carnegie
Short Uncritical Quotes
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies. — Marshall McLuhan
The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe. — Colin Wilson
the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore. — Ethel Smyth
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically. — Benjamin Spock
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. — Will Durant
Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt. — Aldo Leopold
In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. — Donald Rumsfeld
... uncritical love is the only real treasure. — Kurt Vonnegut
Belief is the uncritical acceptance of something you can't prove. — Hans Holzer
The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. — George Polya
Hypocritical Quotes
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. — Elijah Muhammad
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses. — Al-Ghazali
Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. — Proverbs
I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical. — ASAP Rocky
The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe. — Lena Horne
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas. — Johnny Cash
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves. — Noam Chomsky
Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics. — Marvin Gaye
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. — Hannah Arendt
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier
To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. — Judith Butler
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. — E. T. Bell
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. — Nick Hornby
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function. — Glenn Greenwald
Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership? — Michael Foot
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. — Niklaus Wirth
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. — Marie Louise
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return. — T. H. White
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. — Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality. — Muhammad Iqbal
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom. — Paulo Freire
What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you live psychologically; and where you live psychologically, determines how you live here in the outer visible world. — Neville Goddard
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. — George Eliot
If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history. — Alice Miller
We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language. — Arne Tiselius
The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform. — John Stott
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics. — Richard Livingstone
What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. — Epictetus
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. — Walter Benjamin
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. — Willard Van Orman Quine
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary. — Ayn Rand
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content. — George Santayana
The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here, there were flat-out lies, and they sort of knew it. They were desperately trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. — Noam Chomsky
It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist. — Maxwell Maltz
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public. — Aldous Huxley
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing. — Edwin Meese
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve the common good. That's often true, but as Darwin recognized clearly, many traits that serve the interests of individual animals make life more difficult for larger groups. — Robert H. Frank
In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible bestiality of the Orient. — Nyla Ali Khan
Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically use words like franchise, which should be reserved for your local Burger King. — David Edelstein
The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but include Charles Krauthammer, the columnist, and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, insist on comparing him to the incomparable leader of the British forces in country in part of - during World War II. — Mark Shields
The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community. — Joseph L. Bast
In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing — Justine Frischmann
The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion. — Garrett Hardin
But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type of traditionalism, unthinking and uncritical, which is carnal and devilish. But there is also a respectful willingness to take help from the Church's past in order to understand the Bible in the present; and such traditionalism is spiritual and Christian. — J. I. Packer
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them. — Lawrence Lessig
I didn't want to talk, and I didn't think dogs could solve my problems. But they were so uncritical and un-judgmental. Sometimes when you're really blue, you don't want to talk, but you want that sense of companionship. I certainly enjoy that with my beasts. — Susan Orlean
It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical. — Gretchen Rubin
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