Quotes About Fault-finding

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Sometimes I think there are people who only read books in the hope of finding mistakes in them.

To seek perfection is to be cursed to find fault in the perfectly adequate, enjoyable, or even just plain good.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person that can find the remedies.

Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.

Although there is validity, I believe, in leaving a church where the leadership consistently presents false doctrine, I also see people who are offended by one remark from the pulpit or one perceived hurt flit to the next church to look for fault there. It's like the cartoon I saw of a skeleton dressed in women's clothes and sitting on a park bench; the caption read, 'Waiting for the perfect man.' There is no perfect church either.

Blame Can Leave a Bad System Undiscovered

By nature, critical people are inclined to find fault or to judge others with severity and often too readily.

It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

We judge people until we finally find something wrong with them.

This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker

Most people will neither appreciate nor even take a note of a simple person's good work, but if he trips in his effort then those only will be the first to take out an old note of his words to point out his flaws.

Oh, you men of small pleasure and enterprise, oblivious to your purpose, fault-finding, avaricious and sinful, who cannot live without women and cannot enjoy without pain, fearsome, inconstant, diseased and withered, dependent, cruel, deceived and liars, the worst of men!

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

We shall enjoy it As for him who finds fault, may silliness and sorrow take him!

Wise people, when they are in the wrong, always put themselves right by finding fault with the people against whom they have sinned.