Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
- Topic: Criticism
- Location: Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.
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.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.