Lewis F. Korns Quotes

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

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

Weaknesses are part of human nature. What matters are the consequences they can have on a squad.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

No man is born without faults.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they're flawed, not perfect.

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

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.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense..

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

People are human. People have failings. It's unfortunate people want to keep piling on people's failings.

I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.