George Soros Quotes

It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

I analyse everything I do and when I see something I don't like I try to find the solution and that's why I'm so hard on myself.

Because I've always been good at knowing what I thought and not reviewing prematurely and have gotten better at those things over the years, my flips are rarely that significant.

I'm very hard on myself. I'm the first person that'll say, 'Yeah I messed up.' And then I'll try to go out and fix it.

Would I have fired me? Knowing me? No.

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?

Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront facts, pleasant or unpleasant. It is the desire to discover our mistakes and correct them . . . it is the quest to keep expanding our awareness and understanding, both of the world external to self and the world within.

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.