Kathryn Schulz Quotes

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

There is something delicious in finding fault with something.

How dare you put yourself in that position where you are the moral judge?

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

It's easier at times to pick at what someone else does.

For people who never tire of telling the world what a moral high ground they've taken in opposing Donald Trump, they sure don't seem to mind offering up a bellyful of gloats and taunts.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

Nothing is easier than fault finding.