All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause.… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You know, Alix, men suck. Really. They are the worst. Come with me. I need an estrogen fix before their chromosomal defects… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory,… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
![“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aa9/haruki-murakami-21_accepting_the-sense-of-tragedy-according-to-aristo_23796.jpg)
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