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"Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not." H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them." Robert Bridges 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame." Pearl Sydenstricker Buck 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic." Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Children have more need of models than of critics." Carolyn Coats 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo da Vinci 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive." Frank Herbert Dune 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations." John Kenneth Galbraith 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him." Kahlil Gibran 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." Uta Hagan 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." Elizabeth Harrison 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too." D. J. Hicks 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism." Michael Horton 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"He who praises everybody, praises nobody." Dr. Samuel Johnson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it." Howard Mumford Jones 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Children need models more than they need critics." Joseph Joubert 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?'" Micheál MacLiammóir 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say." Lord Melbourne 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible." Henry Louis Mencken 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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Frank A. Clark Frank Herbert Frank Herbert Dune
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Marcus Tullius Cicero Michael Horton
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Richard Hofstadter Robert Bridges Robert Maynard Hutchins
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