FAULT QUOTES

quotations about faults

It is more charitable, and often more in keeping with the truth, to term men's faults only differences.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


The reason why we so often judge correctly concerning the faults of others, is because we are always in search of them.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


The highest evidence that love exists is its readiness to overlook and pardon faults.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


Man's faults lie like reptiles--like toads, like lizards, like serpents; and what if there is over them the evening sky, lit with glory, and all aglow? Are they less reptiles and toads because all is roseate around about them?

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


No one likes to be pitied for his faults.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1735


If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take such pleasure in observing those of others.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The Reflections of Lichtenberg


We must accept most great people with great faults.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


Our faults are like weeds--if we really want to get rid of them we can't just take off their tops, we have to rip them out by their very roots.

FRANZ METCALF

What Would Buddha Do?


When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


Consider not one fault where there are many virtues.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


There are faults in others we are often indulgent to; I mean those which have a connection with our own.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims


The faults that are visible in ourselves should, at least, teach us tenderness with respect to those we imagine in others.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


A sure way to hear of your faults is to boast of your virtues.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


No one recognizes their faults or their virtues when these are stated by another, any more than they recognize their own voices on a tape recorder. The world transmits back to us only the asymmetric form of our vices, as a mirror reflects back the asymmetric form of our faces.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Cool Memories

Tags: Jean Baudrillard


What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, Dec. 15, The Spectator, Dec. 15, 1711


Only great men have great faults.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


Oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King John


Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room.

JAMES BALDWIN

Go Tell It on the Mountain