Imperfect Quote by John Donne Download Open image “How imperfect is all our knowledge!” — John Donne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imperfect Knowledge
We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Knowing that, no one is perfect, but not everyone knows how to understand other people's imperfections. — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes! — Brenda Jackson Copy Share Image
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. — John Donne Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but… — John Donne Copy Share Image
We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart? — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull… — John Donne Copy Share Image
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas - acquaints you… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ. — Chuck Smith Copy Share Image
the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
I wish I was the girl with the perfect hair and flawless face..but wait... that's pretty much like a barbie... plastic and fake. — Goon_Mariaa Copy Share Image
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature.… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home.… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not. — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this." — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
