Self-criticism is one of the functions of System 2.

For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about…

— Robert D. Hare

“The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at…

— Daniel Kahneman

It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of…

— Ibn Warraq

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

— Charles Horton Cooley

One who accepts criticism gracefully is genuinely interested in self improvement.One who is willing to excel accept constructive criticism by his core of heart…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

— Rachel Ward

“Lo! we are diseased and dying, cried the dark hosts; we cannot write, our voting is vain; what need of education, since we must…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid…

— Herbert Spencer

Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their…

— Henry Markram

There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or…

— Miguel Nicolelis

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because…

— Rohit Shetty

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime…

— Elizabeth George

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or…

— John Ortberg

The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems,…

— August Krogh

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb