Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

George Eliot

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

Katherine Moennig

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

Patrick Rothfuss

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Neal A. Maxwell

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Neal A. Maxwell

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

Patricia MacLachlan

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

Lucretius

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.

Mark Helprin

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

Mark Levin

Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.

Christopher Dawson

We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

Joseph Addison

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Kevin Rudd

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

Ellen G. White

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

Kesha

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.

Jonathan Sacks

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

Mia Wasikowska

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

Shane Koyczan

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

Simon Van Booy

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Henry B. Eyring

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

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

Henry David Thoreau

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Friedrich August von Hayek

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

John Ruskin

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

Nnedi Okorafor

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

John Drinkwater

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

John Donne

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

Francois Fenelon

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

Lady Gaga

I love imperfections.