Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
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.
And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Perfection is a polished collection of errors.
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse.
Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.
Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter.
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
Talent is often a defect in character.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.
