Defects Quotes

The cheapest form of pride however is national pride. For it reveals in the one thus afflicted the lack of individual qualities of which he could be proud, while he would not otherwise reach for what he shares with so many millions. He who possesses significant personal merits will rather recognize the defects of his own nation, as he has them constantly before his eyes, most clearly. But that poor blighter who has nothing in the world of which he can be proud, latches onto the last means of being proud, the nation to which he belongs to. Thus he recovers and is now in gratitude ready to defend with hands and feet all errors and follies which are its own.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

I am sensible that there are defects in our federal government, yet they are so much lighter than those of monarchies, that I view them with much indulgence. I rely, too, on the good sense of the people for remedy, whereas the evils of monarchical government are beyond remedy. If any of our countrymen wish for a King, give them Aesop's fable of the frogs who asked a King; if this does not cure them, send them to Europe. They will go back good republicans.

Everyone has technical flaws - no matter how many runs you score.

Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

Testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

The B-29 engines have more bugs than the insect collection of the Smithsonian Institution.

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.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

The duration of every political phase is just as long as it takes to unveil its shortcomings and evil. While discovering its defects, it makes way for a new phase, liberated from these failings. Thus, these impairments that appear in a situation and destroy it are the very forces of human evolution, as they raise humanity to a more corrected state.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

It's impossible to have zero defects.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

The advocates of the higher education of the Negro would be the last to deny the incompleteness and glaring defects of the present system: too many institutions have attempted to do college work, the work in some cases has not been thoroughly done, and quantity rather than quality has sometimes been sought. But all this can be said of higher education throughout the land.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

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.