Imperfect Quotes

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.

My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is.

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

The imperfect is our paradise.

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.

A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.

I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?

Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.