Human Imperfection Quotes

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

We all have our strengths and our failings.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily, does not wait to be done by perfect men.

People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach. Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times.

Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

You've never met a more flawed guy than me.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.