Imperfection Quotes

Do I have bad days? Absolutely. But there are ways to overcome these things and that's perhaps what I do differently: I don't allow myself to dwell day after day on my imperfections.

I have faith in my imperfections!

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

You take my imperfections and you love them divine.

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.

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.

I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

I love imperfections.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.

We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you.

We are perfect in our imperfection.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.

Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

... imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

Imperfection means perfection hid.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.

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.

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

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.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.