Berthold Auerbach Quotes

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

There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

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

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

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.

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

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

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

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

I've criticized myself over the years.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

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

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

You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.