Imperfect Quotes

626 quotes by 472 authors

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy. — Therese of Lisieux
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining… — Judith Viorst
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan. — George S. Patton
I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him… — Francis Frangipane
Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is… — BrenÃ© Brown
According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws,… — Rabindranath Tagore
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.… — Vaclav Havel
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. — Doug Larson
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. — William Howard Taft
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more… — J.R.R. Tolkien
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to… — Gottfried Leibniz
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others. — Joseph Priestley
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end. — Aristotle
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments… — Marcello Malpighi
I believe that life is valuable, even when it is unwanted, even when it is physically imperfect. I believe our society has a responsibility to… — George W. Bush
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature. — Lord Chesterfield

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