Faults Quotes - Page 26

• Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

  Voltaire

  Men, Perfection, Doe

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• One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Mean, Men, Looks

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• Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Damn, Damn Things, Ifs

  Ernest Hemingway (1963). “Green Hills of Africa”, Scribner

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• We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

  Robert Barron

  Adept, Seeing

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• I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

  B. C. Forbes

  Faces, Facts, Addresses

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• Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mother, Art, Father

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• Right now I'm having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don't have time to find fault with the other fellow.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Trouble, Right Now, Moody

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• Try finding love, rather than finding fault.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Finding Love, Trying, Findings

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• A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Giving, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.115, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. If you recognize it, your awareness will destroy it. He who rejects this will never know the entrance to the Temple.

  R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

  Errors, Over You, Temples

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• When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

  Epictetus

  Principles, Blame, Starting

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• I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Knowing, Guy

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Country, United States, Nations

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• Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Whips

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.212, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.

  Donald Trump

  Mistake, Compassion, People

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• Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

  George Ayittey

  Gone, Orthodoxy, Claims

  "Border Jumpers". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2005.

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• I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Simple, Views, Understanding

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• Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth, righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possess for spiritual advancement.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Compassion, Appreciate

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• Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.

  Pope Gregory I

  Wish, May, Garments

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• The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it like a chain. Teachers can't incorporate that. They don't have time; it's not their fault. They don't have the resources to give personal attention to each kid in the classroom.

  Malik Yusef

  Teacher, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Culture, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We are posing two very clear questions. The first is: Did the Holocaust actually take place? You answer this question in the affirmative. So, the second question is: Whose fault was it? The answer to that has to be found in Europe and not in Palestine. It is perfectly clear: If the Holocaust took place in Europe, one also has to find the answer to it in Europe.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Europe, Two, Holocaust

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Men, Mirrors, Forgiving

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