Quotes with fault-finding

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  • Alexander Pope Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Helen Rowland Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Henry Home The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
    Henry Home
    British lawyer and writer (1696 - 1782)
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  • Denis Waitley The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Gertrude Stein The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Henry Kissinger The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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  • Albion W. Small The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
    Albion W. Small
    American sociologist and editor (1854 - 1926)
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  • Ezra Pound The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Leon Edel The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Marguerite Duras The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • E. B. White The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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