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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. — Lawrence G. Lovasik

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects. — Jenni Rivera

Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. — Edgar Ramirez

Man is a robot with defects. — Emile M. Cioran

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you. — Rumi

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization. — Winifred Holtby

It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences. — E.W. Jackson

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. — Jacques Maritain

Love is as faith in that one's perspective becomes, usually irremediably, tainted upon contraction, so as to obscure all defects therein — Yours Truly

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt

I accept my body and its defects.
I accept my character
and its weaknesses.
I love myself as a perfect part
of a perfect Whole. — Human Angels

Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection. — Peter Danielson

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. — 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

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software. — Kent Beck

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. — Spencer W. Kimball

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery. — Heidi Murkoff

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. — Francois Fenelon

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen. — Martin Luther King Jr.

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Talent is often a defect in character. — Karl Kraus

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects. — Barry Boehm

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding. — Jonathan Edwards

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects. — Anne Lamott

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages. — Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

The defects of a preacher are soon spied. — Martin Luther

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. — Aristotle.

So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses. — Samael Aun Weor

Nevertheless, vanity and conceit are defects from which scarcely any convict is exempt. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies. — Jules Renard

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. — Victor Hugo

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way? — Isaac Marion

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants. — Che Guevara

We all have the defects of our qualities ... — Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you. — Clarice Lispector

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us. — Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects. — Jacques Maritain

We are, more and more, our own defects and not our qualties.
The Elephant's Journey — Jose Saramago

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience. — C.S. Lewis

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. — Emily Oster

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. — Lafcadio Hearn

It was truly amazing what character defects people would tolerate if one had a title, a fortune, and a few interesting scars. — Anne Barton

Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too? — Rachel Cohn

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image. — Blaise Pascal

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects. — Colin Firth

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws. — Mardy Grothe

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time. — Phil Crosby

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — Oscar Wilde

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

Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them. — W. Edwards Deming

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. — Bertolt Brecht

Children have but little charity for each other's defects. — Mark Twain

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself. — Saint Augustine

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. — Thomas Mann

I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects. — Larry McMurtry

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world. — Owen Feltham

All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects. — Dada Bhagwan

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Who decides which defects are funny and which ones are tragic? Nobody laughs at blind people or makes iron lung jokes. — David Mitchell

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. — Honore De Balzac

Resist the dimples. Do not look at the dimples. They are defects. Shit, must ignore the dents. — Donna Augustine

Love is not completely blind. But it surely has some eye defects that is worser enough to push you down at early stages of life!! — Nelson Jack

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

We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects. — Stephen Fry

Anyone who does not share his moments of joy and discouragement with others will never fully know his own qualities and his own defects — Paulo Coelho

It's distressing when intellect can't detect its own defects. — Juan Filloy

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. — Jose Mourinho

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. — William Hazlitt

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others. — Saadi

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore De Balzac

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business ... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. — Herodotus

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents. — Herbert Spencer

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. — Isaac D'Israeli

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others. — Sri Aurobindo

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better. — Donatella Versace

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now. — Robert Anton Wilson

Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube. — W. Edwards Deming

Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. — Aldous Huxley

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. — Joseph Joubert

Only the great can afford to have great defects. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. — Bainbridge Colby