Top 252 Defect Quotes & Sayings

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

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.

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

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

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

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love, O perfect life in perfect labor writ, O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, -- What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse, What least defect or shadow of defect, What rumor, tattled by an enemy, Of inference loose, what lack of grace Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's -- Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee, Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?

No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

Talent is often a defect in character.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Defect-free software does not exist.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make it obvious to everyone, and suddenly everyone is staring at just that defect. It's always like that. The more you hide something, the more it shows. But when you accept your defect, suddenly no one on earth sees it anymore.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester?

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

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

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Pele is out of normal patterns and I'm not saying this because I'm a Brazilian. You can't find a defect.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.