Defects Quotes

343 quotes by 269 authors

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. — Robert Lowell
GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness,… — William Shakespeare
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
True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it,… — John Tillotson
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. — Spencer W. Kimball
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
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are… — Pedro Almodovar
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
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to… — Robert Greene
That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has… — Alexander Hamilton
I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of… — Ian Wilmut
One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help. — Robert Kiyosaki
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
Only the great can afford to have great defects. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts… — Moliere
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. — Isaac D'Israeli
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen

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