Foibles Quotes

• Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Weakness, Lovable

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• Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friendship, Betrayal, Allowance

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• I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Challenges, Triumph

  Source: wwd.com

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• If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stars, Rocks, Hands

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 (Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by E. Payne, 1974.

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• A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Faults, Lovable

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• A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.

  William Osler

  Book, Character, Men

  Sir William Osler, Osler Library (1969). “Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science”, p.10, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, Humanity, Intellectual

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

  Hannah More

  Spring, Half, Misery

  Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338

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• I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

  Denise Mina

  Thinking, Negative, Flaws

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• There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

  Molly Ivins

  Powerful, Two, People

  "The Mouth of Texas", People Weekly, December 9, 1991.

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• A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

  Joseph Conrad

  Writing, Men, Fellow Man

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• When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Thinking, Vanity

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

  Paul Klee

  Distance, Lying, Garden

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• A forte always makes a foible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Forte

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Character, Mean

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• Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn't mind (and the animal rarely does), I don't mind, and I don't see why anyone else should.

  Frank Kameny

  Animal, Long, People

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• When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things that are unexpected, and makes you laugh and cry because of his human flaws and foibles.

  Andrew Lam

  Character, Laughing, Misunderstood

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

  Moliere

  Life, Powerful, Inspire

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• No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it. So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are.

  Aisha Tyler

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Dream, Children, Fun

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• But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Believe, Humanity, Religion

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• I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Thinking, Gone, Curse

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Sep 07, 2011

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• When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, People, Essentials

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

  William Osler

  Mind, Library, Weakness

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• If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.

  James Burgh

  Kings, Blessing, Thrones

  James Burgh (1794). “The Dignity of Human Nature; or, a Brief account of the certain and established means for attaining the true end of our existence ... By J. B. (James Burgh.)”, p.31

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