Quotes with defects

Quotes 21 till 31 of 31.

  • C. Everett Koop They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Alexander Pope Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Jacques Maritain We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • William Hazlitt We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • William Somerset Maugham We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Margaret Halsey Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Oscar Wilde Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Only the great can afford to have great defects.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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