
ProverbMorality
English origin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for their faults.
Meaning: Examine what others do well while ruthlessly cataloging your own shortcomings, reversing our natural judgment bias.
Origin: Recorded in A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, an undated collection published in London by Whittaker & Co. around 1880 and credited to Thomas Preston. Its earlier history hasn't been traced.
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