Top 100 Quotes About Defects
#1. it's human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it's due to defects in someone else's department, knowledge, or character,
Eric Ries
#2. Being a journalist influenced me as a novelist. I mean, a lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. "I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.
Charles Dickens
#5. Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.
Thomas Aquinas
#6. If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?
Josemaria Escriva
#7. God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
#8. As soon as I kiss him I know that I love him with a blind instinct beyond all reason, with all his defects.
Anais Nin
#9. 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
#10. The haughty princess of Austria, who became, as queen of England, the head of fashion, looked with harsh eyes on his defects, and with contempt on the affection her royal husband entertained for him.
Mary Shelley
#11. The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#12. I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
Lance Henriksen
#13. Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.
Che Guevara
#14. When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
Jules Renard
#16. 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
#18. At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Albert Camus
#19. A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
#21. In the human race, the frequency of the virtues that are identical in us all is not more wonderful than the multiplicity of the defects that are peculiar to each one of us. Undoubtedly, it is not common sense that is "the commonest thing in the world"; it is human kindness.
Marcel Proust
#22. Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.
Thomas Hardy
#23. The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.
Confucius
#24. The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Bill Vaughan
#25. If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married. You would be a set of unfortunate bachelors. Not, however, that that would alter you much.
Oscar Wilde
#26. Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.
Pedro Almodovar
#27. Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus
#29. Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
#30. True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
John Tillotson
#31. When she was pregnant with her second child, a midwife asked if Catherine had any unspoken fears about anything that could go wrong with the baby - such as genetic defects or complications during the birth. My sister said, 'My only fear is that he might grow up to become a Republican.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.
Samael Aun Weor
#33. Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.
Hugh Ross
#34. Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.
Blaise Pascal
#35. With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
Umberto Eco
#36. Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
Owen Feltham
#37. What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.
Honore De Balzac
#38. I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#39. A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
Mark Strand
#41. I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
Kent Beck
#42. The defects of the mind are
like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#43. The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.
Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
#44. The defects of the West are innumerable, its crimes and errors very real. But in the end, let's not forget that we are the only ones to have the possibility of improvement and emancipation that lies in free genius.
Albert Camus
#45. Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and steady, this positive joy arises.
Amit Ray
#46. 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
#47. All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.
H. P. Blavatsky
#49. I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.
Constance Marie
#50. Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
Saint Augustine
#51. Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.
Heidi Murkoff
#52. It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character presented me with a sort of negative proof of my own.
Marcel Proust
#53. Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.
Jenni Rivera
#54. But any war is harvest to such Governments, however ruinous it may be to a nation. It serves to keep up deceitful expectations, which prevent a people looking into the defects and abuses of Government. It is the "lo here!" and the "lo there!" that amuses and cheats the multitude.
Thomas Paine
#55. We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Jacques Maritain
#56. If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
Francois Fenelon
#57. Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.
Joan Didion
#59. Absence of defects does not necessarily build business ... Something more is required.
W. Edwards Deming
#60. 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
#61. The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.
Alexander Kotov
#62. Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
Bainbridge Colby
#63. I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.
Curtis Jackson
#64. He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads.
Sharon Kay Penman
#65. Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.
Joel Fuhrman
#66. Jeeves, whatever his moral defects, would never go about in skirts calling me Bertie.
P.G. Wodehouse
#68. It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.
Maggie Shayne
#69. So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
Carmen Busquets
#70. 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
#71. Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde
#72. My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.
Jessie Pavelka
#73. So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice
Plato
#74. Resist the dimples. Do not look at the dimples. They are defects. Shit, must ignore the dents.
Donna Augustine
#75. I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.
B.C. Forbes
#76. Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.
Mark Twain
#77. Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#78. When you're interested in somebody and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them.
Alison Pace
#79. 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
#81. But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.
Clarice Lispector
#82. Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#83. A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
Anne Lamott
#85. Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects.
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Albert Sanchez Pinol
#86. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison
#87. I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.
Jose Mourinho
#88. It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.
Bertrand Russell
#89. Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
Marian Wright Edelman
#90. As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
William Cowper
#91. Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
Maggie Gallagher
#92. Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
Charlotte Bronte
#93. Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Jonathan Swift
#94. One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects ... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being ...
Mary Shelley
#96. The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
Robert Anton Wilson
#97. Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
Honore De Balzac
#98. Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.
James Dyson
#99. Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.
Edith Piaf
#100. Never associate with those who share your defects - they will reinforce everything that holds you back.
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