Quote by Lao Tzu

“I've always questioned the so-called perfection of surfaces. If you looked close enough, there was always a flaw.”

— Amy Talkington

“Every one has his peculiarities and cannot get rid of them; and yet many a one is destroyed by his peculiarities, and those too…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“Besides, people never regard anything that serves and benefits them as mysterious; only the things which damage or threaten them are mysterious.”

— Karel Čapek

“Being the exception was no longer a mysterious, special thing. I had become his weakness.”

— Jamie McGuire

“It never failed to astonish him, then or ever, how much of the world around him was mysterious and hidden from view.”

— Lev Grossman

“There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they…

— Anonymous

“One of man's greatest flaws is that he thinks far too highly of what he does.”

— Tim Campbell

“Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and it’s worse…

— Sarah Perry

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

“You may uncover more and, eventually, what seems altogether a mystery to us now may unfold and become plain.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master’s sense of self, poke holes in his vanity,…

— Robert Greene