It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.
Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
A society that feels itself to be flourishing is likely to interpret everything that happens to its own advantage and in its own image. By contrast, a society that feels confused or in decline often converts any event - however innocuous - into a weapon of self-laceration.
I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
I think the cool thing about snowboarding is that everyone has their own style.
When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
