Essays Quote by Gloria Steinem

“It’s the system that surrounds us, rather than any intrinsic quality, that accounts for the vast majority of our behavior.”

— Jeff Sutherland

“Human beings and their social orders are intrinsically imperfectible and fortunately so. In a constantly changing world, we need the flexibility that only imperfection…

— Edward O. Wilson

“As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect”

— Joao Matod

“The one thing we will not do under any circumstances is accept ourselves as we are. We prefer to find an explanation for why…

— Charlie Campbell

“We blame our bosses, the economy, our politicians, other people, or we write ourselves off as failures or our goals as impossible. When really…

— Ryan Holiday

“Organisms, organizations, and individual people are always highly imperfect but capable of improving. So rather than getting stuck hiding our mistakes and pretending we’re…

— Ray Dalio

“it is rightly said that we all are equal. The only thing that puts us in a hierarchy is our effort.”

— Varun Bhat

“...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.”

— René Descartes

“It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things.”

— T.H. White

“The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.”

— Mark Sagoff

“So many people try to be perfect to fit into the world view. What they fail to realize is that it is the world…

— Sandra Cooze

“Accountability is not about blame, it’s not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you’ve made, or are making, that create the…

— Claire Fontaine