“People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.”
Source: On the Contrary (1964), Ch. 7
The Big Time (1958)
“People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.”
Source: On the Contrary (1964), Ch. 7
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Mayor Gherkin, Chapter 8, p. 120
Source: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)
Context: ... but what I eventually came to understand was that if a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.
“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Included in Portrait-Life of Lincoln (1910) by Francis T Miller
Posthumous attributions
“Ignore the normal people, who knows what they’re thinking.”
Film Quotes
Interview with actress Nastassja Kinski, Indiantelevision.com, 23 August, 2003