Perfection Quotes

2101 Perfection quotes by 1319 unique authors

The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and… — Nachman of Breslov
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. — Owen Feltham
The very pink of perfection. — Oliver Goldsmith
Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure. — Marvin J. Ashton
The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine. — Martin Buber
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate. — Marcus Aurelius
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. — Alfred de Musset
However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself -… — John of the Cross
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of… — Jean Paul
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts… — Immanuel Kant
You would attain to the divine perfection. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has… — Unknown Author
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot… — Edward Abbey
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying. — Dora Russell
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill… — Diogenes
Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters. — C. Northcote Parkinson
Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as… — Barbara De Angelis
The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth… — Alfred North Whitehead

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