Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Source: From The LIFE 101 Quote Book, an internet collection of quotations.
-- Kingsley Amis, (Apr 16 1922-1995), English novelist, poet, critic, teacher; He created in Lucky Jim, 1954 a comic figure who who became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s.