Wilfrid Sheed Quotes

I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

I don't think I'm that boring.

I don't really think of myself as stupid - but then, who does?

I am very critical about the way I look.

You can tell the depth of a person based on the quality of the questions they ask. We can measure the depth of humanity by a similar method. Space compels us to ask deeper questions.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. I think I've gotten a little easier on myself, or at least a little more usefully critical of myself. I think before, I just couldn't take looking at myself at all.

I was just an okay person.

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.