Mark Twain Quotes

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

I always thought I was a good person, a decent person. I never harassed anyone or touched anyone. And you say to yourself, 'Oh, that's good enough,' but yes, I had certain jokes that I always assumed the audience would understand. This is Persona.

The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

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

I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small. Now ask yourself what you contributed in creating your current situation. Did the professor fail you because you never went to class? Did your boss yell at you because you were on YouTube instead of working?

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

I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.