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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My criticism of most religions is that
they don't allow criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Completion:
It is time for the project to be over.
You submitted the proposal, you painted your house,
you passed-in the term paper.
Whatever praise or criticism you received,
it is now time to move on to your next project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a child lives with criticism,
he learns to condemn.
...
If a child lives with fear,
he learns to be apprehensive.
...
If a child lives with encouragement,
he learns to be confident.
...
If a child lives with acceptance,
he learns to love.
- Dorothy Law Nolte
There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
- Henry David Thoreau
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
I am free of prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating
in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world
without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful.
There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -
there are no distinctions.
- Osho
Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
It ain't those parts of the Bible
that I can't understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those distractions that turn my attention from
what I thought I was going to do today are not "rat holes";
they are Enchanted Rabbit Holes
with a Magical White Bunny awaiting in each.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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