The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be… — John Daly Copy Share Image
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some… — Katharine Hamnett Copy Share Image
Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“The process of turning our life and will over to the care of God in Step Three begins by working the rest… — Al-Anon Family Groups Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery. — Heidi Murkoff Copy Share Image
The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter,… — Constance Marie Copy Share Image
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does… — Confucius Copy Share Image
God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
