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Quotes About Incomplete

The realization that baryonic matter is only a trace component of the universe revealed our understanding of the cosmos as shockingly incomplete and was one of the milestones that ushered in the era of modern cosmology.
~ Sandra Faber
The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
~ Ida Tarbell
And when I think of my few acquisitions, I have to admit how fiercely the autodidact struggles for her education, and how incomplete that education remains. How illusory is any accumulation of knowledge!
~ Sheridan Hay
Exceeding your own expectations can often leave things incomplete
~ Siddharth Astir
The voids that cannot be filled need to be shielded.
~ Siddharth Astir
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
~ Sara Zarr, Sweethearts
The aposiopesis was icy.
~ Max Beerbohm
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.
~ bell hooks
When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best — no matter how good — is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.
~ Ben Carson
Contempt The contempt I feel for others—for myself different, less internal than guilt. It's not that I think (or have ever thought) I was bad—through and through. I think I'm unattractive, unloveable, because I'm incomplete. It's not what I am that's wrong, it's that I'm not more (responsive, alive, generous, considerate, original, sensitive, brave etc.). My profoundest experience is of indifference, rather than censure.
~ Susan Sontag
U.K. policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the country and the situation.
~ Crispin Blunt
There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole Gospel and knowing what it is to be born again. They hear a gospel which is incomplete, and consequently not good news at all.
~ Billy Graham
Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.
~ Haruki Murakami
What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.
~ Alain de Botton
It's dark outside, in that thorough way that looks like the night trying to tell you it hasn't finished.
~ Sophie Hannah
the desire for perfection is that desire which always makes every pleasure appear incomplete, for there is no joy or pleasure so great in this life that it can quench the thirst in our soul.
~ Stanislav Grof
In fact a full cadastral survey of Greece remains incomplete to this day.
~ Stathis Kalyvas
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
~ John Stuart Mill
Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete
~ Isaac Asimov
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
High Velocity Human Factors is defined through its mission statement as "a focus on those instances when the human agent has to perform in an environment where the stakes are high, physical danger is imminent, and the future is unpredictable and the information is incomplete.
~ Michael J. Asken
Is this how we discover the truth, evolve? By gathering together such unconfirmed fragments?...Will all of them who have remained incomplete and lost to me become clear and evident when I look back?
~ Michael Ondaatje
We order our lives with barely held stories. As if we have been lost in a confusing landscape, gathering what was invisible and unspoken—Rachel, the Wren, and I, a Stitch—sewing it all together in order to survive, incomplete, ignored like the sea pea on those mined beaches during the war. The greyhound is
~ Michael Ondaatje
Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.
~ Michael Pollan