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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

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. — Henry Becque

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

Part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition. — Anna Quindlen

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

I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog. — Mindy Kaling

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

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. — John Major

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. — John Fowles

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

The world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect. — Dada Bhagwan

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

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. — Seth Godin

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 have the defect of being more
sincere than persons wish. — Moliere

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

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. — Lu Xun

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

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect — Patrick White

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. — Ouida

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 defect
to 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

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. — Lao-Tzu

The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect
it is always cautious in the wrong place. — Wilkie Collins

But the lack of a sense of humor was an insurmountable defect, in my opinion. — Jeaniene Frost

Stupid is forgivable, but ignorance is intolerable. The first is a birth defect, the second is a choice. — Lucee Lovett

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect. — Marilyn Yalom

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

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. — John Calvin

The defect which one period of life fastens upon us, another will remove. — Publilius Syrus

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. — Cyril Burt

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently. — Werner Herzog

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. — Rumi

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them. — Jean Reno

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. — Max Beerbohm

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 feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate. — Rosa Montero

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

we are most judgmental of the defect we've just given up. — Judi Hollis

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

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. — Tom Stoppard

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. — William Hazlitt

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason — Charles Dickens