A Quote by Ulysses S. Grant

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized. — © Ulysses S. Grant
The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.
Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most.
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
The ones who complain and talk the most about giving away Medicine Secrets, are always those who know the least.
I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They don't know the technology. They don't know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they're lost.
Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.
No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.
It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.
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