Incomplete Quotes

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. View quote
Emil Cioran
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. View quote
Elihu Root
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. View quote
Norman Cousins
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete. View quote
Robert Browning
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact. View quote
John Tyndall
Free will is an illusion. It is synonymous with incomplete perception. View quote
Robert J. Sawyer
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete. (Kakuzo Okakura)
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. View quote
Conrad Veidt
Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand. View quote
José Martí
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist.A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation. View quote
Juan Gris
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it's incomplete. View quote
Ai Weiwei
But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times. View quote
Gerhard Richter
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful cannot lead to all truths. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected. (Thomas Nagel)
Fear is incomplete knowledge. View quote
Agatha Christie
Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. View quote
Northrop Frye
We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified - how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know. View quote
Richard Feynman
Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful. View quote
Charles Fort