Top 9 Imperfect Things Quotes

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

Fashion, Imperfect Things, Interesting

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

Imperfect Things, Imperfect, Rich

We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.

Kathryn Schulz

Regret, Past, Imperfect Things

"33% of Adolescents Regret Their Tattoos, Study Finds" by Derek Beres, bigthink.com. April 11, 2017.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Owen Feltham

Change, Imperfect Things, Perfection

Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

Charles Baudelaire

Eye, Imperfect Things, Poetry

"L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Imperfect Things, Economics, Foresight

John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.312, Princeton University Press

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Ben Jonson

Imperfect Things, Light, Opinion

Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.92, Manchester University Press

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

Tom Stoppard

Imperfect Things, Matter, Free Press

Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

Richard Rohr

Happy Life, Imperfect Things, Unhappy

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