Human Imperfection Quotes

#1. Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which human imperfection could aspire. His whole life lay before him, smooth, broad, and definitive, as untroubled by uncertainty as a river flowing to the sea.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#2. The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Ben Okri

#3. It was the thumbprints of human imperfection that used to move him, the flaws in the design: the lopsided smile, the wart next to the navel, the mole, the bruise. Was it consolation he'd had in mind, kissing the wound to make it better?

Margaret Atwood

#4. No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. Though I am a lot of things, most importantly I am human.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#6. Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

Harold S. Kushner

#7. History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#8. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.

Louise Erdrich

#9. Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

Andrea Dworkin

#10. Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Anton Corbijn

#11. God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

William Ellery Channing

#12. Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

Patricia Arquette

#13. [The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#14. Either nobody's perfect,
or everyone is.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#15. The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

Dean Koontz

#16. For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

Liza M. Wiemer

#17. One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#18. But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.

Iain Thomas

#19. It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.

James Madison

#21. It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Soren Kierkegaard

#22. We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#23. The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

Richard Pascale

#24. Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth
nothing is so simple as that.

Susan Cooper

#25. Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.

Clyde DeSouza

#26. There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#27. She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition.

Angela Carter

#28. Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human
and by that I mean imperfect
beings.

Martha Beck

#30. Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.

Melody Beattie