Richard Whately Quotes

I'm not good at watching myself.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.

I've criticized myself over the years.

I'm going to be more critical of myself than anyone could ever be.

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.