The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time. — Phil Crosby Copy Share Image
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. — Cyril Burt Copy Share Image
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“Reckless. Insatiable. Deceptive. Clingy. Vain. Dismissive. Trivial. Violent. Tactless. Controlling. Impractical. Fearful. Think of one example in your past where you exhibited… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others? — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
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