"When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting."

Criticism, Curiosity, Humility, Learning

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"When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting."

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"The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot."

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"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."

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"There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs."

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"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."

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"Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."

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"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"

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"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."

Anne Sullivan Macy, American Educator

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"So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Act that way and slowly but surely I will fade away. All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will be shaved away completely - and I would end up nothing."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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