Community Quote by Michela Wrong

“It is very easy to criticize others but far more difficult to put one’s own principles into practice, and it is when one forgets…

— Murasaki Shikibu

“A good opinion of ourselves is exceedingly necessary in private life, but absolutely necessary in public life, and of the utmost importance in supporting…

— Thomas Paine

“I wrote that outsiders were often lonely, but they needed to be to change the world around them. And they understood loyalty far better…

— Julian North

“We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by.”

— R.A. Salvatore

“Never judge yourself by the narrow standards of others. What we do together here is our business, nobody else's. Never, never doubt what we…

— Lynne Connolly

“to think nothing about the opinion of his society (if he be in any sense a member) is to be unconsciously influenced by it.”

— Michael Oakeshott

“Every one of us is a hodge-podge, so shapeless and diverse in structure that each piece, each moment, plays its own game. And there…

— Michel de Montaigne

“A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different…

— William James

“No matter what anyone says, we all care, to a certain extent, how others view us. We may not care what everyone thinks of…

— Alison G. Bailey

“The problem with all of you is you think in isolation instead of realizing we are one community, when one of us falls, we…

— Poppet

“It's funny how we judge others and don't realize the extent of our disdain until they are no longer there, until they are taken…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”

— Shannon L. Alder