Quotes by Defects You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love. Anais Nin defects realizing humans We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us. Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles defects odor approach 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. Arthur Schopenhauer defects pessimism perfection General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. Bertolt Brecht defects men thinking An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision. Charles Babbage defects vision knowing In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man. Christopher Fry defects brotherhood-of-man men I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. Emile M. Cioran defects seems people Man is a robot with defects. Emile M. Cioran defects robots men I'm a good person, but with many defects. Enrique Iglesias defects good-person be-good If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. Francois Fenelon defects annoyed should Only the great can afford to have great defects. Francois de La Rochefoucauld defects faults It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. Francois de La Rochefoucauld defects greatness men There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld defects temperament mind There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke defects sometimes character Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld defects pride humility Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. Georg C. Lichtenberg defects sickness mankind The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. Henry Becque defects equality desire Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. Honore de Balzac defects women virtue The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. Henry David Thoreau defects forgetfulness ignorance I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being. Jacques Lacan defects universe purity 123»