Jon Ronson Quotes

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

I wouldn't be the type of person to critique anybody. I've got to look at myself first, to be a better person.

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

I am critical of myself.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

Because I have been so pigheaded and so selfish about so many things for so many years, I've spent a lot of time being, like, 'That person needs to change. This person needs to change.'

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.