Top 356 Defects Quotes & Sayings

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

All authors to their own defects are blind.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense of supporting it. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Man is a robot with defects.

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

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

We all have the defects of our qualities.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

It's impossible to have zero defects.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

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

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.