(95 quotes found)
“The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.”
Henry Miller
“A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.”
Joseph Addison
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.”
Adam Osborne
“A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity”
David Hume
“Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
Sam Keen
