#Flaws Quotes

“Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.”

“Faults that are rich are fair.”

“A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.”

“When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind”

“There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?”

“We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.”

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”

“We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.”

“One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.”

“A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.”

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

“Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.”

“The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.”

“Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.”

“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”

“Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.”

“Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.”

“None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.”

“How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!”

“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”

“A man's errors are what make him amiable.”

“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”

“Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.”

“We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.”

“Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.”

“Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.”

“The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.”

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”

“The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.”

“Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.”

“We all have done something unethical.”

“What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.”

“What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.”

“What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.”

“What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.”

“Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”

“Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.”

“One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.”

“None but great men are capable of having great flaws.”

“We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.”

“A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”

“We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.”

“In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.”

“"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."”

“What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?”

“If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?”