Defect Quotes

148 quotes by 128 authors

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people,… — Chaz Bono
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. — Roberto Cavalli
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect… — Thomas Aquinas
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity… — John Jay Chapman
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and… — John Desmond Bernal
Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. — Rumi
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack… — John Desmond Bernal
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is… — Mark Twain
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science… — Charles Kingsley
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. — Cyril Burt
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich… — Jean Lorrain
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor… — Margaret Sanger
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods… — Max Beerbohm
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we… — Tony Robbins
[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply… — George Washington

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