Defect Quotes

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. (William Hazlitt)
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. View quote
Jonathan Swift
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. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. View quote
Robert Lowell
I believe that monetary policy has a chronic defect. It is asymmetric-it works better in restraining an economy than in stimulating an economy. View quote
Lawrence Klein
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. View quote
Saul Kripke
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind - my wayward heart creates its own misery - Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child - long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it. (Mary Wollstonecraft)
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. View quote
Horace Mann
Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter. View quote
Maimonides
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. View quote
Lu Xun
So may a glory from defect arise. View quote
Robert Browning
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. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is a defect of God's humour that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. View quote
Tom Stoppard
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness. View quote
François Fénelon
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. View quote
Roberto Cavalli
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)
When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded. View quote
Francis Bacon
The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning, or some sudden force of the Passions. Defect in the Understanding, is Ignorance; in Reasoning, Erroneous Opinion. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. View quote
Bertolt Brecht