reproach quotes

Oversimplification isnowa commontermof reproach in academic discussions; everyone is against oversimplification. But there is no parallel term nearlyas frequently used to describe the opposite phenomenon, which surely occurs as often, if not more so.

- Bennett Maurice Berger
  Authors of their Own Lives (edited by Berger), introduction.

It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life†to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise; to be disgraced by miscarriage or punished for neglect† Among these unhappy mortals isthe writer of dictionaries† Every other author mayaspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama†ridicule and reproach†pleading and persuasion.

-William Safire
  Safire's Political Dictionary, introduction.

I amso far likethemidwifethat I cannot myself give birth to wisdom, and the common reproach is true, that, though I question others,I can myself bring nothing to light because there is no wisdom in me.

-Socrates
Quoted in Plato Theaetetus,150c (translated by F M Cornford).