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No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
— Mitch Albom
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
— Karl Kraus
Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
— Robert Henri
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
— Saul Kripke
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
— Mason Cooley
We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
— Anthony Liccione
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
defect corrections have more than a 50 percent chance of being wrong the first time
— Steve McConnell
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
— Saint Teresa Of Avila
He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.
— Henny Youngman
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.
— Robert Lowell
Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect
— Steven Pressfield
I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect."Chapter 12, pg 213 — Sylvia Day
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
— Robert Lowell
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
— Charles Babbage
Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world - every defect in the society shall be healed.
— Abhijit Naskar
A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You see, this is one big defect of many people... They see nothing good in people they don't like. And this is dangerous.
— Teodoro A. Agoncillo
Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.
— Susanna Centlivre
The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions.
— Leo Tolstoy
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
— Julius Caesar
Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?
— Django Wexler
Our desires are insatiable. We seek from the limited the unlimited. We must fail. Our insatiability is a third incurable defect in human life.
— Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
— Laozi
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
— Nicolas Chamfort
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
— Jane Austen
They can only take what you give them.
— Ryann Kerekes
Sanity that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power. — Matthew Arnold
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
— Jacques Lacan
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
— Roberto Cavalli
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
— David Stove
What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester?
— Jim Norton
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
— James Russell Lowell
Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it
— Mason Cooley
To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.
— Narendra Modi
Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy ...
— Rebecca West
It is a human defectto try to know one's self by the self of another. — Robert Penn Warren
Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
— Quentin Blake
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
— Baron De Montesquieu
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
— Edmund Burke
The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defectit is always cautious in the wrong place. — Wilkie Collins
Stupid is forgivable, but ignorance is intolerable. The first is a birth defect, the second is a choice.
— Lucee Lovett
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
— Bertolt Brecht
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.
— Bertrand Russell
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
— Max Beerbohm
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
— Jean Reno
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
— Horace Mann
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.
— Condoleezza Rice
You make her sound - what? - mentally deficient?" "Yes. She was incapable of holding on to malice. A serious defect.
— Orson Scott Card
the law clearly stated that a man with a physical defect could not be king.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man's rebellion against God.
— Billy Graham
Defect-free software does not exist.
— Wietse Venema
You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
— Fred Brooks
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
— Isak Dinesen
Talent is often a defect in character.
— Karl Kraus
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
— Charlotte M. Mason
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
— Werner Herzog
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
— John Henry Newman
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
— Lillian Smith
Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure.
— Andrew Murray
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.
— Noam Chomsky
