A Quote by Epictetus

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

Epictetus

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Epictetus
Greek - Philosopher
50 - 138

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Marilyn Monroe

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

Oswald Chambers

That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.

Emile Durkheim

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Nicolas Chamfort

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.

George Carlin

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

Pablo Picasso

Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology, or a channeled Atlantean priest as readily as a biblical prophet.

Barbara G. Walker

Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We replace the old in return for something that will serve us better.

Alfred P. Sloan

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

Philip Yancey

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.

Gottfried Leibniz

To me it is just common sense that we should be making apprenticeships readily available to every young person who wants to go down that route - and encouraging people to consider taking this path just as readily as we would encourage someone to look into a university degree.

Layla Moran

I know, normally folks on TV wouldn't readily admit their age, but since there's nothing you can do about it, you might as well own it and be happy.

Gretchen Carlson

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

Charles Darwin

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