Defect Quotes

148 quotes by 128 authors

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. — Robert Lowell
Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then… — Sue Monk Kidd
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited),… — Aristotle
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. — Jane Austen
There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of… — John Dewey
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did… — Philip Yancey
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. — John Fowles
Talent is often a defect in character. — Karl Kraus
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence.… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal… — George Papandreou
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks… — D. Elton Trueblood
To Amma, all are Her children. In Amma's eyes no defect of Her children is serious. But when She is considered as the guru, it… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor… — Arthur Helps
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers,… — Charles Buck
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. — Werner Herzog
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too… — William Shakespeare
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have… — Bertrand Russell

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