Defects Quotes · Page 5

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren

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

— Bainbridge Colby

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

— Henry Becque

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Marilyn Yalom

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself…

— Thomas a Kempis

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They…

— Mindy Kaling

Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to…

— Hugh Ross

I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I…

— George Saunders

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those…

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only…

— Blaise Pascal

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some…

— Tennessee Williams

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could…

— Mitch Albom

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse…

— Clarence Darrow

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment.…

— Chaz Bono

When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him…

— Emanuel Lasker

A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of…

— John Adams

Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable,…

— Kevin Maney

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a…

— Abraham Lincoln

Being beautiful is not in the way you dress nor on the pigments you put in your face. Being beautiful is being…

— Galileo Galilei

Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known…

— H. L. Mencken

Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the…

— Winona LaDuke

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects…

— Samuel Johnson

That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the…

— Edward Gibbon

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,…

— Calvin Coolidge

In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center…

— Jerome F. Lederer

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

— Mindy Kaling

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

— Winifred Holtby

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

— Roberto Cavalli

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

— Isak Dinesen

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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

— Jack Abramoff

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

— Che Guevara

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib