Defects Quotes

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad?

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

We all have the defects of our qualities.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

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.

Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Man is a robot with defects.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

Talent is often a defect in character.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

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.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

All authors to their own defects are blind.

Women are as they are;
they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

Without humility,
we keep all our defects;
and they are only crusted over by pride,
which conceals them from others,
and often from ourselves.

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.