Miracles' rely on their observer’s ignorance. 'Perfection'…

I do not believe in miracles, I rely on them.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.”

— Robert Lowell

“To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.”

— Karl Kraus

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

— Jonathan Swift

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

— Quentin Blake

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

— Seth Godin

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We…

— Mitch Albom

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

— Robert Lowell

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of…

— Tennessee Williams

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a…

— Kathryn Stockett

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne