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  1. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability

  2. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability

  3. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability

  4. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability

  5. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    Perhaps that’s what we all had to do — think out for ourselves what we could believe and how we could live by it. And so I came to the conclusion that you had to use this life to develop the very best that you could develop.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
    Essay (1951-12), “This I Believe: Growth that Starts from Thinking,” on Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe, CBS Radio

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/82…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #belief #beliefsystem #besteffort #doyourbest #excellence #goodbehavior #meaningoflife #moralcode #personalcode #selfactualization #selfchallenging #selfcorrection #selfdevleopment #selfexamination #selfimprovement #selfquestioning #selfrespect

  6. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    We try to make virtues of the faults we do not wish to correct.
     
    [Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶442 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #boasting #correction #failings #faults #fixing #merit #promotion #rebranding #selfcorrection #selfimprovement #vices #virtue #weaknesses

  7. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The point is that when a nation silences criticism and dissent, it deprives itself of the power to correct its errors. The process of silencing need not be as savage as in Nazi Germany or in South Africa today; it is enough that an atmosphere be created where men prefer silence to protest. As has been observed of book-burning, it is not necessary to burn books, it is enough to discourage men from writing them.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #selfcorrection #censorship #criticism #dissent #error #oppression #protest #selfcensorship #silencing

  8. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The point is that when a nation silences criticism and dissent, it deprives itself of the power to correct its errors. The process of silencing need not be as savage as in Nazi Germany or in South Africa today; it is enough that an atmosphere be created where men prefer silence to protest. As has been observed of book-burning, it is not necessary to burn books, it is enough to discourage men from writing them.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #selfcorrection #censorship #criticism #dissent #error #oppression #protest #selfcensorship #silencing

  9. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The point is that when a nation silences criticism and dissent, it deprives itself of the power to correct its errors. The process of silencing need not be as savage as in Nazi Germany or in South Africa today; it is enough that an atmosphere be created where men prefer silence to protest. As has been observed of book-burning, it is not necessary to burn books, it is enough to discourage men from writing them.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #selfcorrection #censorship #criticism #dissent #error #oppression #protest #selfcensorship #silencing

  10. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The point is that when a nation silences criticism and dissent, it deprives itself of the power to correct its errors. The process of silencing need not be as savage as in Nazi Germany or in South Africa today; it is enough that an atmosphere be created where men prefer silence to protest. As has been observed of book-burning, it is not necessary to burn books, it is enough to discourage men from writing them.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #selfcorrection #censorship #criticism #dissent #error #oppression #protest #selfcensorship #silencing

  11. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The point is that when a nation silences criticism and dissent, it deprives itself of the power to correct its errors. The process of silencing need not be as savage as in Nazi Germany or in South Africa today; it is enough that an atmosphere be created where men prefer silence to protest. As has been observed of book-burning, it is not necessary to burn books, it is enough to discourage men from writing them.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #selfcorrection #censorship #criticism #dissent #error #oppression #protest #selfcensorship #silencing

  12. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Even the acquisition of knowledge is often much facilitated by the advantages of society: he that never compares his notions with those of others, readily acquiesces in his first thoughts, and very seldom discovers the objections which may be raised against his opinions; he, therefore, often thinks himself in possession of truth, when he is only fondling an errour long since exploded. He that has neither companions nor rivals in his studies, will always applaud his own progress, and think highly of his performances, because he knows not that others have equalled or excelled him. And I am afraid it may be added, that the student who withdraws himself from the world, will soon feel that ardour extinguished which praise or emulation had enkindled, and take the advantage of secrecy to sleep, rather than to labour.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1754-01-19), The Adventurer, No. 126

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/81496…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #study #studygroup #argument #collaboration #company #debate #education #error #interaction #isolation #learning #motivation #realitycheck #selfcongratulations #selfcontrol #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdeception #selfdelusion #selfeducation #selfmotivation #selfpolicing #selfpraising #selfrationalization #selfrighteousness #selfsufficiency #society #solitude #truth

  13. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Even the acquisition of knowledge is often much facilitated by the advantages of society: he that never compares his notions with those of others, readily acquiesces in his first thoughts, and very seldom discovers the objections which may be raised against his opinions; he, therefore, often thinks himself in possession of truth, when he is only fondling an errour long since exploded. He that has neither companions nor rivals in his studies, will always applaud his own progress, and think highly of his performances, because he knows not that others have equalled or excelled him. And I am afraid it may be added, that the student who withdraws himself from the world, will soon feel that ardour extinguished which praise or emulation had enkindled, and take the advantage of secrecy to sleep, rather than to labour.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1754-01-19), The Adventurer, No. 126

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/81496…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #study #studygroup #argument #collaboration #company #debate #education #error #interaction #isolation #learning #motivation #realitycheck #selfcongratulations #selfcontrol #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdeception #selfdelusion #selfeducation #selfmotivation #selfpolicing #selfpraising #selfrationalization #selfrighteousness #selfsufficiency #society #solitude #truth

  14. A quotation from Cicero

    All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them.
     
    [Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 12, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (12.2/12.5) (43-03 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #meme #changeofmind #correction #error #foolishness #folly #inflexibility #mistake #revision #selfcorrection #stubbornness #stupidity

  15. A quotation from Cicero

    All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them.
     
    [Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 12, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (12.2/12.5) (43-03 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #meme #changeofmind #correction #error #foolishness #folly #inflexibility #mistake #revision #selfcorrection #stubbornness #stupidity

  16. A quotation from Cicero

    All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them.
     
    [Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 12, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (12.2/12.5) (43-03 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #meme #changeofmind #correction #error #foolishness #folly #inflexibility #mistake #revision #selfcorrection #stubbornness #stupidity

  17. A quotation from Cicero

    All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them.
     
    [Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 12, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (12.2/12.5) (43-03 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #meme #changeofmind #correction #error #foolishness #folly #inflexibility #mistake #revision #selfcorrection #stubbornness #stupidity

  18. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    Fortunate people seldom mend their ways, for when good luck crowns their misdeeds with success they think it is because they are right.
     
    [Les gens heureux ne se corrigent guère; ils croient toujours avoir raison quand la fortune soutient leur mauvaise conduite.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶227 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #prosperity #ego #fortune #goodluck #incentive #selfcorrection #selfimprovement

  19. A quotation from Horace

    He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
    Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
    “I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
    Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
     
              [Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
    rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
    labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting

  20. A quotation from Horace

    He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
    Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
    “I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
    Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
     
              [Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
    rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
    labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting

  21. A quotation from Horace

    He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
    Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
    “I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
    Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
     
              [Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
    rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
    labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting

  22. A quotation from Horace

    He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
    Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
    “I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
    Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
     
              [Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
    rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
    labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting

  23. A quotation from Horace

    He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
    Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
    “I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
    Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
     
              [Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
    rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
    labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting

  24. A quotation from Thomas Fuller

    Thou never wast so good as thou shouldest be; if thou does not strive to be better. And thou never wilt be better, if thou doest not fear to grow worse.

    Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
    Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2092 (1727)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #backsliding #regression #goal, #goodbehavior #goodperson #progress #selfawareness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfmotivation #selfpolicing #selfregard #selfunderstanding #selfworth

  25. #introduction
    Olá! I am a last year PhD fellow in #psychology. My work is being conducted at the #EmoSensesLab ('bird app'), University of Aveiro, PT

    I am studying #emotion #cognition and #perception in #schizophrenia #psychoticdisorders. Other research topics include #MotionPerception #consciouness #FacePerception and #olfaction. And also super interested on #openscience #scicomm #statistics #methods and #selfcorrection.

    Proud human of Fibas, the laziest (and most stylish) dog I ever meet