Faults Quote by Samuel Johnson

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am…

— John Locke

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

— Giacomo Leopardi

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

— Albert Einstein

“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world…

— Hermann Hesse

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

— Baltasar Gracian

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and…

— Stephen Toulmin

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal…

— Helen Rowland

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.”

— David Hume

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

“It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of…

— Francis Wyndham