self-criticism...

Admitting limitations is difficult. It is easier to criticize or observe others than to self-criticize. Introspection is painful, especially when
you want to make mistakes public. But maybe it's the best way to improve.

Nor should criticism be feared. Criticisms of informants show an increase in the cultural density of a society. If we are criticized it is because we have previously taught audiences to be suspicious of any excessive concentration of power. "We are required to be better, criticism can not leave us indifferent"

There is no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. For where would the faculty of knowing, for its exercise, be awakened if it were not by means of objects that hurt our senses and now provoke representations by themselves, or they set in motion our intellectual capacity to compare, link, or separate them and to elaborate like this, with the gross matter of the sensitive impressions, a knowledge of the objects called experience? According to the time, then, no
Knowledge precedes us in experience and all knowledge begins with it.