(1645 quotes found)
“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
Albert Einstein
“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age”
“It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence”
Oscar Wilde
“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”
Buddha
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
Anna Quindlen
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time”
Voltaire
“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.”
Adam Osborne
“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”
Mark Twain
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