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  • #1
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Once in a golden hour
    I cast to earth a seed.
    Up there came a flower,
    The people said, a weed.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

  • #2
    William Penn
    “They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

    (Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
    William Penn

  • #3
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #4
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
    Georgia O'Keefe

  • #5
    Criss Jami
    “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.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #6
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”
    Chuck Palahniuk

  • #7
    John Wooden
    “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
    John Wooden

  • #8
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #9
    Jean de La Bruyère
    “The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”
    Jean De La Bruyere

  • #10
    Leonard Bernstein
    “I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.”
    Leonard Bernstein

  • #11
    Pablo Picasso
    “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #12
    Daisaku Ikeda
    “It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.”
    Daisaku Ikeda

  • #13
    Jonathan Swift
    “We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #14
    Judith Martin
    “When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”
    Judith Martin

  • #15
    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
    “The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.”
    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  • #16
    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “Critique by creating.”
    Michelangelo Buonarroti

  • #17
    Jarod Kintz
    “It’s easier to pick apart what is, than put together what isn’t.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #19
    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    Philip José Farmer

  • #20
    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #21
    Jonathan Swift
    “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #22
    Sidney Sheldon
    “A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
    Sidney Sheldon

  • #23
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.”
    Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

  • #24
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    “A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  • #25
    Lemmy Kilmister
    “People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

    [Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
    Lemmy Kilmister

  • #26
    David Almond
    “Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”
    David Almond, My Name Is Mina

  • #27
    Jonathan Franzen
    “Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”
    Jonathan Franzen

  • #28
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    Socrates

  • #29
    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Change is the end result of all true learning.”
    Leo Buscaglia

  • #30
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

    (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography



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