Pema Chodron Quotes

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Now everyone is a critic.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

I know all the critics.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

It's easier at times to pick at what someone else does.

I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

Nothing is easier than fault finding.

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

People should always know better.

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

Blame is safer than praise

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

there's plenty of blame to go around.