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“Criticism alone can strike a blow at the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which are universally injurious—as well as of idealism and scepticism, which are dangerous to the schools, but can...” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“Sectarian feeling and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.” 14th Dalai Lama, Kindness, Clarity, and Insight
“As for criticism, do it in good time; don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each others' faults.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.” François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one . . . just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.” Epictetus, Enchiridion
“one should never argue about plays or novels. Everyone has his own way of looking at things, and what may be horrible to you is, perhaps, just what I like best.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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