Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our…

You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

— Linus Pauling

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling) of something…

— Jane Austen

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse…

— David Antin

If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and…

— Helmut Schmidt

To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of…

— Robert Peel

“For years I had been aware of an important deficiency in the English language: a word to describe something a person loses that was…

— Ellen Miller

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that…

— Malcolm X

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine…

— Tryon Edwards

Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously…

— Anonymous

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to…

— Justus von Liebig

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer,…

— Watchman Nee

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their…

— Sydney J. Harris

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire…

— Samuel Butler