Imperfection Quotes - Page 12

• Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

  Thomas Sowell

  Price Of Freedom

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.332, Hoover Press

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• Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Moving, Buddhism

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• Imperfections make you more beautiful.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Beautiful

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• For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Perfection, Mind, Doe

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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• Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

  Alfred Kahn

  Mean, Competition, Regulation

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• I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be! I 'abhor what is evil,' and I would 'cleave to what is good!' - I am not what I hope to be! Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality: and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was - a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the Apostle, and acknowledge; By the grace of God, I am what I am!

  John Newton

  Evil, Grace, Wish

  The Christian Spectator, Volume 3 (p. 186), 1821; later quoted in "The Christian Pioneer" edited by Joseph Foulkes Winks (p. 84), 1856.

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• Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.

  Martha Beck

  Mean, Acceptance, Giving

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• At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.

  George Leonard

  Healing, Heart, Unique

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• It’s our imperfections that make us vulnerable, make us interesting. How can I make myself a bit of an asshole and still have humanity about it?

  Steve Coogan

  Interesting, Humanity, Vulnerable

  Interview with Alfonso Cuarón, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.

  Lucretius

  Atoms, Venture, Divine Power

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• I realise that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors - but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch, in the next 200 years, will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. My regret will have been that I could not behold its demise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Regret, Lying

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• You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sorry, Parent, Live Your Life

  "Drew Barrymore: 'I've lost count of the number of times I've cried over men'". www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.

  Roger Kimball

  Attitude, Practice, Perfection

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• In your flaws are hidden your strength. Your perfect imperfection will lead you to change.

  Tonto Dikeh

  Perfect, Flaws

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• Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love Is, Doe, Infinite

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1137, Delphi Classics

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• When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think.

  Pascal Chaumeil

  Thinking, Details, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets.

  Jay Mohr

  Men, Sound, Sheets

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• You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.

  Terry Crews

  Perfect, Enjoy

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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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• When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Mirrors, Way, Gains

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.64

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• Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Looks, May, Firsts

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• It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Feel Better, Parent

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• Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Taken, Vanity, Half

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.152

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• Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.

  William of Ockham

  Judging, Perception, Intuition

  William (of Ockham), Philotheus Boehner (1990). “Philosophical Writings: A Selection”, p.115, Hackett Publishing

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• Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Focus, Enemy, Speech

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