Criticize

Famous quotes containing the word criticize:

“We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonable to do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“Don’t criticize a snake for not having a horn; for all you know it may someday become a dragon.”
—Chinese proverb.