Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

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

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

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

I am critical of myself.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.