“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
“No sooner do men settle down to a given set of ideas, a pat-tern of living and of thinking, than fault-finding begins, and fault-finding is the tap-root of revolutions.”
Source: One is A Crowd: Reflections of An Individualist (1952), p. 34
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Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The True Game, The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 2 (p. 31)
“Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"Eighth Air Force," lines 16-20
Losses (1948)
Context: For this last savior, man,
I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying?
Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.
“Never find fault with the absent.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
Misattributed
“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Magnam habet cordis tranquillitatem, qui nec laudes curat, nec vituperia. — Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ (ca. 1418), book II, ch. VI, paragraph 2.
Misattributed
“Some people find fault like there is a reward for it”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Source: Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Quotes
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
Citation- ffb-132, Part 4
Fifty Freedom-Boats To One Golden Shore (1974)
Context: Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.