Quotes About Imperfection

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

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

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

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.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I'm a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn't funny I'd be kicked right out the door.

God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

I have no flaws, I'm perfect at being imperfect.

Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

Imagination comes of not having things.

Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.