Top 50 Our Defects Quotes
#1. We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
Andre Maurois
#2. We try to conceal our defects and say the things we think the other one wants to hear. We pretend that we're always lovely and sweet-tempered and that we don't mind the other's nasty little habits. And then after the wedding, we lower the boom.
Lisa Kleypas
#3. One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called 'weasel words.' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a 'weasel word' after another there is nothing left of the other.
Theodore Roosevelt
#4. We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#5. Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
Jules Renard
#6. Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
William Wilberforce
#7. We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
John Lancaster Spalding
#9. No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#10. Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde
#11. God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.
Max Lucado
#12. Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#13. I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.
Anne Lamott
#14. We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
Che Guevara
#15. Our megatechnic culture, based as it is on the strange supposition that subjective malice has no reality and that evils do not exist, except in the sense of reparable mechanical defects, has proved itself incompetent to take on such responsibilities.
Lewis Mumford
#16. There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#17. We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#19. I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
W. Somerset Maugham
#22. I have no way and therefore want no eyes
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
our means secure us, and our mere defects
prove our commodities.
William Shakespeare
#23. In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
#24. Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
Michel De Montaigne
#25. We are, more and more, our own defects and not our qualties.
The Elephant's Journey
Jose Saramago
#26. All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects.
Dada Bhagwan
#27. In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.
Christopher Fry
#28. Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#29. I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects
not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
Therese De Lisieux
#30. Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.
Samuel Johnson
#31. The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.
Henry Becque
#32. In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
Saint Basil
#33. We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.
Mardy Grothe
#34. With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.
Stephen Fry
#36. Father says we are all Defects, in our way. Humans and clones. He says the word is really just a scare tactic to incite disobedient beings into subservience. He says that's all it really is - just a word.
Rachel Cohn
#37. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
#38. THE SELF IS THE ROOT of the mental poisons. Our mind fabricates, projects, and attaches concepts to people and things. Egocentric fixation reinforces the qualities or defects that we attribute to others. From
Dalai Lama XIV
#40. The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models. We came hardwired with different stories, dark secrets, vices, and defects. Over time, we fail and come to find our end, but the city continues onwards.
Cristina Martin
#41. I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs.
Lester Grinspoon
#42. The principles of Twelve Step recovery are the opposite of our character defects.
Anonymous
#43. The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.
Jim Warner
#44. As the sun, who is the eye of the world, Cannot be tainted by the defects in our eyes Nor by the objects it looks on, So the one Self, dwelling in all, cannot Be tainted by the evils of the world. For this Self transcends all!
Anonymous
#45. Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.
Robert W. Hemphill
#46. The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
#47. We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
Philip Neri
#48. The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
Moliere
#49. The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease.
Agona Apell
#50. Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Francois Fenelon
