Quotes About Flaws

But only you know the full range of your secret transgressions, insufficiencies and inadequacies. No one is more familiar than you with all the ways your mind and body are flawed. No one has more reason to hold you in contempt, to see you as pathetic—and by withholding something that might do you good, you can punish yourself for all your failings. A dog, a harmless, innocent, unselfconscious dog, is clearly more deserving.

Osiris's decision to close his eyes when he should have kept them open exacted a brutally heavy price: subjugation to his evil brother, Set. The idea that the state had a malevolent brother was an axiom, we might say, of the Egyptian worldview—no doubt the consequence of a complex, long-standing civilization observing its own flaws—and something that has retained its relevance to the current day.

That emphasis on tolerance is so paramount that for many people one of the worst character flaws a person can have is to be "judgmental."* And, since we don't know right from wrong, or what is good, just about the most inappropriate thing an adult can do is give a young person advice about how to live.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.

Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

When we accept ourselves in all our weakness, flaws, and failings, we can begin to fulfill an even more challenging responsibility: accepting the weakness, limitations, and mixed-up-ed-ness of those we love and respect. Then and only then, it seems, do we become able to accept the weakness, defects, and shortcomings of those we find it difficult to love.

One of the first things that strikes us about the men and women in Scripture is that they were disappointingly non- heroic. We do not find splendid moral examples. We do not find impeccably virtuous models. That always comes as a shock to newcomers to Scripture: Abraham lied; Jacob cheated; Moses murdered and complained; David committed adultery; Peter blasphemed.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

Humans are incredibly selfish. And in parents, flaws become hyper focused.

President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

If something is too perfect, it doesn't speak your language. If it's imperfect, I understand it.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

I believe everyone is imperfect in their way.

I find beauty in imperfection.

Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection.

I like imperfection.

Imperfection is fine.

There's beauty in imperfection.