"Critics are already made."
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"If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!"
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"Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."
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"You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.""
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"Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done."
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"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it."
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"Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property."
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"There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question."
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"Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads."
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"Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason."
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"A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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"The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth."
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"Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough."
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"Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form."
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"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."
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"People who ask for your criticism want only praise."
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"To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement."
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"I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof."
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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
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