Defect Quotes

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;

Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old.

Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

In order to form correct habits, we should seek the company of persons of sound moral and religious influence. We should constantly bear in mind that we may be fitting to inhabit the heavenly courts. The precious hours of probation are granted that we may remove every defect from the character; and we should seek to do this, not only that we may obtain the future life, but that we may be useful here. Young men and women should regard a good character as a capital of more value than gold or silver or stocks. It will be unaffected by panics and failures, and will bring rich returns when earthly possessions shall be swept away.

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

There is something wrong about the man who wants help.

There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half.

The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

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

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

. . . I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.