
“It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.”
Un certain sourire (1955, A Certain Smile, translated 1956)
“It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.”
Un certain sourire (1955, A Certain Smile, translated 1956)
“The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 31
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
“3890. Point not at other's Spots with a foul Finger.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750) : Clean your Finger, before you point at my Spots.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Don't bite my finger, look where I am pointing.”
Attributed to McCulloch in: Seymour Papert (1965) Introduction to McCulloch. p. xxviii
“And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers.”
Source: Gods and Generals
Come Follow To You, Vol. 2, Chapter 4; in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), Part 2.
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 2 (p. 13).