Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.

We need to remember we're always a lot more wrong than we think.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

Even I make mistakes." I put on my brash, overconfident face. "I know it's hard to believe—kind of surprises me myself—but I guess it has to happen. It's probably some kind of karmic way to balance out the universe. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have one person so full of awesomeness.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

I am human, and of course I can make mistakes, even if nobody allows them.

We all make mistakes, nobody ever wrote a book saying 'This is how you live your life.'

I'm not a perfect player.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

There's a lot of 'oops' from us in life as people. I always say that God never says 'oops.' That's just kind of how I've always lived my life, but we're so imperfect that there's a lot of times that we say, 'Oops, my bad.'

The truth of the matter is, when you think about it, we all make mistakes.

Everybody makes mistakes, and I am a human being.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.