Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

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

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I try not to be overly analytical.

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.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

Where I Was Wrong

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

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

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

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

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

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

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!