Quotes About Flaws

Men differ in their virtues, if any, but they are alike in their vices.

Some of it was just a function of my getting older, I suppose, for if you are paying attention, each successive year will make you more intimately acquainted with all of your flaws – the blind spots, the recurring habits of thought that may be genetic or may be environmental, but that will almost certainly worsen with time, as surely as the hitch in your walk turns to pain in your hip.

peccadilloes.

There is no such thing as perfection on earth and certainly not in a church.

Far better to know people for the cruel creatures that they are, and to love them despite their flaws, than to love them as we wish them to be and constantly be disappointed and hurt.

Perfection cannot endure in an imperfect world.

It's good to do your testing with participants who are like the people who will use your site, but the truth is that recruiting people who are from your target audience isn't quite as important as it may seem. For many sites, you can do a lot of your testing with almost anybody. And if you're just starting to do testing, your site probably has a number of usability flaws that will cause real problems for almost anyone you recruit.

the concept of wabi sabi30—or the ability to find beauty in imperfection. If a vase is accidentally broken, for example, they don't throw the pieces away or try to patch it up to hide the accident. Instead, they take golden glue and painstakingly reassemble the vessel, so its unique flaws make the piece more beautiful.

Our greatest enemies are ultimately not our political adversaries but entropy, evolution (in the form of pestilence and the flaws in human nature), and most of all ignorance—a shortfall of knowledge of how best to solve our problems.

The beauty of reason is that it can always be applied to understand failures of reason.

In The Blank Slate I argued that two extreme visions of human nature—a Tragic vision that is resigned to its flaws, and a Utopian vision that denies it exists—define the great divide between right-wing and left-wing political ideologies.154

emerge from the rough-and-tumble of argument, such as that you have to provide reasons for your beliefs, you're allowed to point out flaws in the beliefs of others, and you're not allowed to forcibly shut people up who disagree with you. Add in the rule that you should allow the world to show you whether your beliefs are true or false, and we can call the rules science. With the right rules, a community of less than fully rational thinkers can cultivate rational thoughts.31

two extreme visions of human nature—a Tragic vision that is resigned to its flaws, and a Utopian vision that denies it exists—define the great divide between right-wing and left-wing political ideologies.154 And I suggested that a better understanding of human nature in the light of modern science can point the way to an approach to politics that is more sophisticated than either.

Communities can thereby come up with rules that allow true beliefs to emerge from the rough-and-tumble of argument, such as that you have to provide reasons for your beliefs, you're allowed to point out flaws in the beliefs of others, and you're not allowed to forcibly shut people up who disagree with you. Add in the rule that you should allow the world to show you whether your beliefs are true or false, and we can call the rules science.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.

Love is rarely flawless," Carter pointed out. "Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

Women are hard on themselves. I'm trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.