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278 quotesCriticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Critics and Criticism
E. M. Cioran
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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Self-image
E. M. Cioran
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No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
Grief
E. M. Cioran
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Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
Goals
Alexander Clark
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Uncategorised
Ramsey Clark
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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves.
Environment
Robert Collier
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Anger
Charles Caleb Colton
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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Happiness
Confucius
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What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
Superiority
Confucius
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When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Character
Confucius
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
Suicide
Cyril Connolly
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No one every listened themselves out of a job.
Listening
Calvin Coolidge
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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
Fiction
Robert Coover
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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
Power
Cotvos
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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Calamity
William Davenant
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Fame
Bette Davis
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Censure
Demosthenes
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The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Motivation
Mike Ditka
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Lies and Lying
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
Neighbors
Norman Douglas
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Morality
William J. Durant
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
Possibilities
Thomas A. Edison
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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
Self-improvement
Tryon Edwards
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Humankind
Albert Einstein
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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Wit
George Eliot
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun