Imperfect Quotes - Page 24

• Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Friendship, Expression, Imperfection

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• The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

  Armand Salacrou

  Running, Atheist, Men

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• The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that each of us is born perfect, exactly as the universe, God intended us to be. We are all perfect. The universe is perfect. Stop struggling against yourself. Accept that you are perfect. When you do, your highest self will shine through.

  Michael Anthony

  Struggle, Acceptance, Self

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• The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

  James Madison

  Government, Perfect, Presidential

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spring, Government, Presidential

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958".

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• If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never
  have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have
  spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of
  it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Should Have, Perfect, Church

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Ignorant, May

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.23, Letcetera Publishing

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• The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we in fact covet in our way, is the alterable moment-the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability, or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better.

  Atul Gawande

  Opportunity, Medicine, Way

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.251, Profile Books

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• True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

  Noel Gallagher

  Perfection, Sound, Foolish

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• There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

  Tara Brach

  Saying Yes, Messy, Liberating

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• It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

  Robert Fisk

  Jobs, Imperfect World, Worry

  "Robert Fisk, Injured in Line of Duty" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 10, 2001.

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• Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Space, Feelings

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• The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Lying, Father, Hands

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• The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Half, Mysterious

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.161

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• I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only as works of mechanism, but works of intelligence, not only as under laws, but under a Lawgiver, wise and good.

  James McCosh

  Wise, Views, Law

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.147

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• When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Wanted, Knows

  Milton H. Erickson (1980). “The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion”, Halsted Press

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• My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

  Poul Anderson

  Yield, Statistics, Certain

  Poul Anderson (2003). “Going For Infinity: A Literary Journey”, p.525, Macmillan

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• Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

  Denis Waitley

  Self Worth, Growing, Accepting Yourself

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Art, Reality, Perfection

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.255

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• Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Reality, Men

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• God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

  Laurence Overmire

  Fear, Power, Men

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• Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Decision, Political, Doe

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• In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

  Ivy Lee

  Imperfect World, Discipline, Safety

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• We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.

  Bob Parsons

  Business, Imperfect World, People

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• A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, Past, Views

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.202, Macmillan

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