autometry

Updated: May 10, 2025

Here lies the truth; he who best understands himself is least likely to be deceived in others; you judge of others by yourselves, and therefore measure them by an erroneous standard whenever your autometry is false. This is one reason why the empty critic is usually contumelious and flippant, the competent one as generally equitable and humane. Montesinos.

Robert Southey - Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society