A Quote by Epictetus

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Epictetus

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Epictetus
Greek - Philosopher
50 - 138

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Don Shula

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

Mitch McConnell

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

H. L. Mencken

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When the South has trouble with its Negroes - when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" - it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

James Baldwin

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Orson Scott Card

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A winner makes mistakes. A loser blames others for them.

Josh Linkner

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Elbert Hubbard

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

J. Paul Getty

A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm

John Naughton

trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.

Laurell K. Hamilton

In 60 years I'm yet to meet a Chief Minister who blames others for his own inability to work.

Amarinder Singh

The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel good about himself. As if it's only rich white people or Republicans or conservatives who have this disease.

George Pelecanos

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