Quotes About Faults

Understanding how things fail is the most important component in solving engineering problems.

Her qualities were all excellent qualities, but sometimes Edward wished that she had more faults and less virtues. It was her virtues that drove him to desperate deeds.

it is often the case that one learns more about a person from their enemies than from their friends." "You suggest that their faults are more important than their virtues?" said Mr. Carey. His tone was dry and ironic. "Undoubtedly—when it comes to murder.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.

The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Moses explained, "the goat will bear all their faults away with it into a desert place."1 In his classic study of religion and violence, René Girard argued that the scapegoat ritual defused rivalries among groups within the community.2

Social justice remained crucial to their piety, as Louis Massignon, the late French scholar, has explained: The mystic call is as a rule the result of an inner rebellion of the conscience against social injustices, not only those of others but primarily and particularly against one's own faults with a desire intensified by inner purification to find God at any price.

Eighteen years ago, Lydia had told her that the problem with Paul Scott was that he didn't see Claire as a normal, imperfect human being. He was blind to her faults. He covered her missteps. He would never challenge her or scare her or infuriate her or stir up any of those fiery emotions that made it worthwhile to put up with a man's bullshit.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

I have not hated the man, but his faults.

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.