Criticize

Famous quotes containing the word criticize:

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

“Parents sometimes feel that if they don’t criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn’t make people want to change; it makes them defensive.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)

“If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)