“And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism— a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You learn from any criticism. You learn from any self-criticism. And you learn from when you do things the right way: you… — Matt Nagy Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“You can use your intelligence to fuel chronic anxiety and self-criticism, or you can use it to understand yourself” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his… — Colette Copy Share Image
When self-doubt creeps in, don't ignore it - address it. Respond to harsh self-criticism with something more compassionate. Talk to yourself like… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
For inner peace, one must accept gracefully his short coming,self committed mistake & the self criticism.No one knows you better than yourself.Therfore… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's… — Seierstad Åsne Copy Share Image
The question is: Do we have a shadow government? And if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is guiding us… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
a self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
One who accepts criticism gracefully is genuinely interested in self improvement.One who is willing to excel accept constructive criticism by his core… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“Self-criticism is a way of life in North Korea. Everybody has to do it, even the highest party members. Our sessions were… — Charles Robert Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“... no one ever develops and achieves self-awareness in a vacuum, beyond all ears and systems. The period you grow up in… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
“Am I being unfair? Is it only my self-hatred playing me a trick? Self-hatred is a gendered feeling: in a man it… — Jens Christian Grøndahl Copy Share Image
“Ironically, harsh self-criticism seems to create an inner rebelliousness that makes us want to give up on our healthy goals. Self-compassion acknowledges… — Melanie Greenberg Copy Share Image
“The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals.… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image