Quotes about Finding Fault

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern[.]

My dear child...fault is an empty word. It is a coin with only one side. It is not a reason or an excuse.

I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.

Perhaps this is the great weakness of all criticism, that it tends to take facts derived from the examination of unimportant works and applies them in making a judgement about a man whose whole importance rests in the successful work, where these facts do not exist.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Philosophy of fault is the greatest fault. At the sight of evil, the mind is immediately polluted.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

The flaw in the work is the flaw in the man.

Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

In reality, failure is simply feedback. It’s not that you are bad or not good enough or incapable. Failure (or feedback) gives you the opportunity to look at what’s not working and figure out how to make it work.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.