Imperfection Quotes

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

Friendship is full of dregs.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

I am only human, although I regret it.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in.

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Human, all too human.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

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.

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

The finest wits have their sediment.

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.

Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.