Imperfectly Quotes
75 quotes by 65 authors
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
— Ben Jonson
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The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity...
— George Herbert
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It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his…
— Abraham Lincoln
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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
— Harrison Salisbury
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by…
— Adam Sedgwick
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The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty…
— Dean Koontz
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You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all…
— Joseph Conrad
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with…
— Albert Einstein
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It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able…
— Albert Einstein
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The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
— Wendell Berry
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I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take…
— William Shakespeare
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
— Plato
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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the…
— Victor Hugo
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I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which…
— Franz Boas
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The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
— Eric Temple Bell
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A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land…
— Julius Evola
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The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if…
— Heber J. Grant
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
— Cal Thomas
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