T. S. Eliot Quotes

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I try not to be overly analytical.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

I've learnt to not look that deeply into what people say as it's mostly a reflection of themselves.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

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

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.