Defects Quotes · Page 4

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

— Robert Henri

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

— Henry David Thoreau

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

— Theodore Roosevelt

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

— Josemaria Escriva

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

— Henry Becque

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

— Bainbridge Colby

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

— Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of…

— Curtis Jackson

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can…

— Emily Oster

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,…

— Matthew Arnold

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if…

— Philip Pullman

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

— Maggie Shayne

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him…

— Anonymous

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education…

— Anonymous

Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best…

— Robert E. Lee

Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in…

— Aristotle

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The…

— Henri Matisse

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage…

— William Shakespeare

Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance…

— Margaret Sanger

I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant…

— Ashley Judd

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been…

— Anonymous

In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists…

— John Walford

Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you…

— Ali Sina

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

— Winifred Holtby

I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.

— Mindy Kaling

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

— Marilyn Yalom

Those who search for the defects of others dont know their own defects.

— Vikrant Parsai

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad?

— Phil Crosby

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

— Jose Mourinho

“Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

— Henry David Thoreau

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

— Patrick White

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

— Jack Abramoff