Defects Quotes · Page 19

Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small…

— Aristotle

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It…

— Bertolt Brecht

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is…

— William Shakespeare

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

— Susanna Centlivre

[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

I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or…

— Niki Burnham

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

— Victor Hugo

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole…

— Oriana Fallaci

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to…

— Samuel Johnson

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and…

— William Cowper

In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to…

— John Desmond Bernal

If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be…

— Anonymous

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

— Bertrand Russell

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English…

— Charles Babbage

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no…

— Jonathan Swift

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

— Jacques Lacan

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

— Cyril Burt

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

— Barry Boehm

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this…

— Lance Henriksen

To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as…

— James Madison

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better…

— Thomas a Kempis

Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

— Mason Cooley

[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when…

— Michel de Montaigne

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

— Jonathan Edwards