Quotes About Perfection

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

Some men are more perfect than others.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

There is no perfect man! I think I'm meant to have many soulmates.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.