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Quotes About Imperfection

There's something ugly about the flawless.
~ Dennis Lehane
Life is always beautiful; even though it may never be the perfect one - for anybody and everybody. So what's a big deal if it's not perfect? Life is always beautiful, in my view, because of the magical mysteries it never ceases to unfold at every moment. So let go the past - and enjoy this moment, this minute, this hour and this day, especially today! Make a great weekend and a wonderful week ahead! Cheers!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
The real wisdom is the realzation of the truth that our world is neither perfect nor evolving gradually to perfection over the centuries yet to come. It is what it is, and we must accept it as it is, with its good and bad as well as beauty and ugliness that coexist symbiotically since the dawn of universe.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
~ John Donne
... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
~ Margaret Halsey
It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
~ Poul Anderson
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
~ Carl Sagan
Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.
~ Andy Hargreaves
A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.
~ Frederick Lenz
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
~ Parker J. Palmer
This is Life, not Heaven you don't have to be perfect
~ Gia Carangi
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.
~ Priyanka Chopra
This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don't be afraid of that.
~ Dylan O'Brien
There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.
~ Natalie Grant
I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.
~ Will Smith
No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.
~ Stan Lee
Imperfect people are all God has ever had to work with. This must be terribly frustrating to Him, but He deals with it.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
You are doing a wonderful job. Parenting is mind-numbingly hard and no one is perfect at it and we'll all jack a thousand parts, yet somehow, against all odds, it will be enough.
~ Jen Hatmaker