#failings

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#failings #inability #mankind #quiet #stay

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#each #failings #faults #find #follies

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#efficient #failings #know #know yourself #only

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. ↗

— Hun Sen

#also #continuing #dangers #expose #failings

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#beauty #failing #failings #naked #nude

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. ↗

— Plutarch

#failings #far #faults #habits #individuals

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #failings #fault #forget #man

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#assign #dig #failings #happened #institutional

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#cause #failings #fame #generous #great

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#bind #closely #could #failings #itself