Human Imperfection Quotes

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

  Ben Okri

  Perfection, Facts, Hints

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• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

  George Soros

  Mistake, Failure, Understanding

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Errors, Names, Imperfection

  William Ellery Channing (1830). “Discourses, reviews, and miscellanies”, p.461

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• It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Opposites, Imperfection

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Years, Long, Perfection

  "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.

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• All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Mistake, Errors

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.171

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• There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, Life And Death, Imperfection

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• ‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Dream, Integrity, Reading

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• A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.107, Basic Books

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• It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.

  Mark Levin

  Children, Makeup, Blood

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

  Criss Jami

  Art, Recovery, Perfect

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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