Charles Dickens Quotes

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

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

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

I'm not good at watching myself.

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

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

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

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

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

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

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

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

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

The confession of one man humbles all.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

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

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.