#defect

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ↗

— Saint Teresa

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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#only #outgrow #soon #too #youth

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#complains #defects #gentle #imperfect #imperfection

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#chronic #defects #deprived #error #had

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. ↗

— Saul Kripke

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I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope. ↗

— Shaun White

#cool #cool thing #crazy #dealing #defect