Best 302 quotes in «flaws quotes» category

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

The more I am able to deeply love and accept my flaws and imperfections, the more I am able to do that with my fellows.

The one [The Beverly Hillbillies] flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

There are flaws in romance but love is perfect.

There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.

The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

A disastrous flaw in our design is that the heart always defies the brain.

Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?

You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.

A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.

A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.

Accepting people's quirks or flaws doesn't just take changing them off your to-do list—it also gives you the time and energy to change the things you can.

But if I've learned anything, it is that goodness prevails, not in the absence of reasons to despair, but in spite of them. If we wait for clean heroes and clear choices and evidence on our side to act, we will wait forever, and my radio conversations teach me that people who bring light into the world wrench it out of darkness, and contend openly with darkness all of their days. [...] They were flawed human beings, who wrestled with demons in themselves as in the world outside. For me, their goodness is more interesting, more genuinely inspiring because of that reality. The spiritual geniuses of the ages and of the everyday simply don't let despair have the last word, nor do they close their eyes to its pictures or deny the enormity of its facts. They say, "Yes, and …," and they wake up the next day, and the day after that, to live accordingly.

[A]nd there are few things as threatening to us as individuals as a person who perceives our worst flaws, especially when those flaws are all they see.

And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.

Being always right is not always right in the wrong places.

And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.