Imperfection Quotes - page 4

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy. (Evgeny Morozov)
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda. View quote
Gustav Heinemann
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. View quote
Joseph Butler
I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record. View quote
Josh Turner
You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton
I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection. View quote
Ne-Yo
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words. View quote
Oliver Ellsworth
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. View quote
John Adams
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it'd lose even its imperfection. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Works that have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that you're attracted to Soseki's The Miner. There's something in it that draws you in, more than more fully realized novels like Kokoro or Sanshiro. You discover something about that work that tugs at your heart-or maybe we should say that work discovers you. (Haruki Murakami)
The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward. View quote
Norman Cousins
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection. View quote
James Salter
Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. View quote
Rajneesh
The first thing that we know about ourselves is our imperfection. This is what Descartes meant when he said: 'I know God before I know myself.' View quote
Simone Weil
The first thing that we know about ourselves is our imperfection. This is what Descartes meant when he said: 'I know God before I know myself.' The only mark of God in us is that we feel that we are not God. View quote
Simone Weil
A precept claiming infallibility should certainly possess the universality of the law of gravitation and the perfection of the arithmetical table. If it fails to possess these undeviating qualities, its imperfection is self-evident and its value either greatly diminished or useless. View quote
Joseph Lewis
If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important. View quote
Eric Cantona
One of the basic rules of the Universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. View quote
Harold S. Kushner
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. (Henry Miller)
We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection. View quote
Ellen G. White