Criticize

Famous quotes containing the word criticize:

“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)

“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

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