Causes Quote by Neal A. Maxwell

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

— Jane Austen

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

— Henry David Thoreau

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some…

— Ray Dalio

“The inept are gifted at overlooking the extent of their incompetence. They suffer from illusory superiority, which leads them to make even more thinking…

— Rolf Dobelli

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

— Thomas Jefferson

“It's distressing when intellect can't detect its own defects.”

— Juan Filloy

You can relate to someone with a flaw.

— Kevin Macdonald

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

— Julia Cameron

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.

— Paulo Coelho

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

— Edith Wharton