“It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.”
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
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“It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 9, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) American literary critic and scholar
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Variant: The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“…nothing will make us so tender and indulgent to the faults of others as a view of our own.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
L'humilité produit le support d'autrui. La vue seule de nos misères peut nous rendre compatissants et indulgents pour celles d'autrui <br class="br"> Œuvres complètes de François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon http://www.passtheword.org/DIALOGS-FROM-THE-PAST/innerlife.htm.
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1980s, Evolutionary Economics, 1981, p. 104
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quoted in: Ingo F. Walther (1996), Picasso, p. 67.
Attributed from posthumous publications