Robert Lowell
Poet
"If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon."
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Defects
57 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"The defects of a preacher are soon spied."
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Author
"We all have the defects of our qualities."
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"General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think."
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"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
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"By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."
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"It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects."
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"Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power."
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"Man is a robot with defects."
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"I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable."
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"Talent is often a defect in character."
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"Only the great can afford to have great defects."
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"The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance."
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"To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity."
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"To be perfect, one lacks only a defect."
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"There are more defects in temperament than in the mind."
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"You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love."
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"Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection."
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"With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China."
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"We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables."
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"Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves."
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"There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to."
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"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them."
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