Defects Quotes · Page 7

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

— Mardy Grothe

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

— Anais Nin

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

— Charles Dickens

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

— Andre Maurois

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

— Robert Henri

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Josemaria Escriva

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]…If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the…

— Dave Barry

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect…

— Sri Aurobindo

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes,…

— Abraham Cowley

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to…

— William Wilberforce

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were…

— Moliere

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

— Bertrand Russell

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

— Honore de Balzac

God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is…

— Francois Fenelon

The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before…

— Jim Warner

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

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the…

— Thomas de Quincey

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in…

— Michel de Montaigne

I learned that I had character defects, that I was allergic to alcohol and drugs, and that I had an obsession with…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

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

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

— Horace Mann

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

— Cyril Burt

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

— Phil Crosby

“It's distressing when intellect can't detect its own defects.”

— Juan Filloy

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

— Aristotle

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

— W. Edwards Deming

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

— Philip Neri

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

— William Hazlitt

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

— Umberto Eco

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

— Noam Chomsky

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

— Honore de Balzac