True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle 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
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time. — Phil Crosby 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
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will… — Anonymous 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
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it… — Bertolt Brecht 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
There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy,… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
