Defects Quotes - Page 16

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Ignorance, Two, Twenties

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It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect.

George Washington

Would Be, Firsts, Aids

George Washington, William Jackson (1838). “Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.10

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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Plato

Government, Lust, Lovers

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Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility, Pride

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I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

B. C. Forbes

Faces, Faults, Facts

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Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

John Locke

Lying, Men, Thinking

John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

Condoleezza Rice

Country, Mean, Circles

Source: www.msnbc.com

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What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."

Curtis Jackson

Character, Thinking, Role Models

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Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.

Winona LaDuke

Country, Cancer, Birth Defects

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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

Aristotle

Mean, Two, Choices

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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

Aristotle

Laughter, Pain, Doe

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None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Greatness, Flaws

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We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Criticism, Way, Use

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There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

Stanisław I Leszczyński

Breeding, Observation, Politeness

François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.179

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No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Character, Giving, Advice

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Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is suppressed. That is one reason that westerners convert to Islam. They are lied to. How do you expect a society to survive when truth is banned and lies are allowed?

Ali Sina

Country, Lying, Mean

Source: myislam.dk

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I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

Curtis Jackson

Character, Thinking, Role Models

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Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Mahatma Gandhi

Eye, Moles, Opponents

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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

John Webster

Men, Ruins, Belief

John Webster (2016). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.65, John Webster

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To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Lu Xun

Time, Faults, Conclusion

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A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

John Adams

Passion, Errors, Prejudice

John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

Edward Young

Ocean, Thoughtful, Silence

Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.82

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Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

John Climacus

Forgiveness, Running, Spiritual

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Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.

Narendra Modi

Zero, Powerful, Thinking

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God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

Francois Fenelon

Knowledge, Perfect, People

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