Quotes About Perfection

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p

You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing.