Geoff Johns Quotes

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

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

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

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.