Dumb people criticize something they do not understand.
Reacting to criticism of the Federal Arts Project:
We are so ready to find evidence agaist our political opponents that it snuffs out our charity and possible doubt.
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account of some passage in Scripture, badly distorted to their purpose, will dare to censure and assail what I have presented here.
I think as in so many cases, the people who criticize, do so without a complete knowledge of the facts.
I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling me that it's baloney.
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils