“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Impressions and Opinions (1891): "Balzac" http://books.google.com/books?id=QCQ7AAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+lot+of+critics+is+to+be+remembered+by+what+they+failed+to+understand%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage.
“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) Finnish composer of the late Romantic period
Bengt de Törne Sibelius: A Close-Up (London: Faber and Faber25 october
“Can I remember— “I remember lots,” I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.”
Charles Stross book Glasshouse
Source: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 15, “Recovery” (p. 250)
“How lazily "xperts" [sic] dismiss what they fail to understand.”
David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 305 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Source: How to Win Friends & Influence People
“See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.”
Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms