Top 270 Imperfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.
A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.
The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.
Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.
Beloveds, you are fine, just the way you are! Perfect in your imperfection! You are divine! Growing brighter and more brilliant each day, you can accept the truth of who you are.
I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.
What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.
Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.
Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.
Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.
How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
We see acne and spots as an imperfection and I've gone to great lengths to cover it up with lots of foundation. And everyone thinks 'Toff's perfect' but I mask my imperfections.
Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
If you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives.
The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection.
Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.
There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.
Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.
