Defective Quotes
92 quotes by 82 authors
-
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
-
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
-
These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline;…
— Sun Tzu
-
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications…
— Noah Webster
-
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being…
— Robin G. Collingwood
-
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill…
— Margaret Mead
-
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot…
— Albertus Magnus
-
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
— Thomas Nagel
-
Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that…
— Michel de Montaigne
-
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform…
— Laozi
-
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever…
— Thurgood Marshall
-
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full…
— Alexander Hamilton
-
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not…
— Confucius
-
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end…
— Ernest Hemingway
-
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
— John Banville
-
Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be…
— George Washington
-
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective
— James Madison
-
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness…
— Margaret Sanger
-
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
— Margaret Sanger
Who Wrote These Defective Quotes
82 authors contributed a total of 92 Defective Quotes, led by these top contributors: