Quotes About Imperfections

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy, so agreeable to the natural vanity and curiosity of men; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

Ignorance or impotence may be pleaded for so limited a creature as man; but those imperfections have no place in our Creator. He foresaw, he ordained, he intended all those actions of men, which we so rashly pronounce criminal. And we must therefore conclude, either that they are not criminal, or that the Deity, not man, is accountable for them.

My imperfections will never override God's promises. God's promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

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

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.

I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right.

I have no human failings, none whatsoever. All my failings are animal.

All software has bugs – it's just a fact of life. You

Don't be afraid to show your flaws. Imperfections are real and people respond to real. It's why we like real flowers that wilt, not perfect plastic ones that never change. Don't worry about how you're supposed to sound and how you're supposed to act. Show the world what you're really like, warts and all.

en todas las fases de la vida se admiten rebajas y desperfectos, se van dejando de lado exigencias: 'Está bien, esto no ha podido ser', se reconoce uno; 'pero todavía queda bastante, todavía compensa y es posible disimular, peor sería que no hubiera nada y se hubiera ido todo al traste'.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated..., and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said.

Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?

Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape? Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.