Imperfection Quotes - Page 7

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.

Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid. As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.

Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

Look at me as an example. I don't have the best education or the best looks. Where I'm from in Nigeria is not entertainment driven, it's the northern part of Nigeria and over there they hardly pay attention to entertainment. I came out of that place to attain this level of success. I always say if I can get here with all of these imperfections then no one has the excuse to fail in life.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.