The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's… — Confucius Copy Share Image
One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof… — Frances Trollope 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
Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any… — Ian Wilmut Copy Share Image
I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in… — Umar Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions. Beware of anyone who insists on reframing your sincere… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
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 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
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
the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“However, most defects end up costing more than it would have cost to prevent them. Defects are expensive when they occur, both… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds;… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this,… — Vladimir Semichastny 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
Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it… — Carter G. Woodson 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
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
![“I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.” quote by Umar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/354/umar-7547_cattle_i-am-surprised-at-three-things-1-a-man-r_1273782.jpg)
