Natsuki Takaya Quotes

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

Every person is observant of the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws.

If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

I might find that I have a habit of being jealous and comparing myself with other people and riveting my attention on how much somebody else is accomplishing or doing, or how much better they are at such and such. First, I might recognize the story - the mental images and internal dialogue - and say, "Okay, comparing mind." Then, rather than staying caught in the content, I'll bring my attention into my body and open to the immediate feelings that are there.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Getting up and criticizing the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.

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

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

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

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

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

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.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Nothing needs reforming more than someone else’s habit.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.