Defect Quotes

• Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

  

  Aristotle
  • Chance
  • Excess
  • Moral Virtue

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

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Universe
  • Purity
  • Defect

• There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices − that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue − the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Extremes

• He's got more or less a defect there that sometimes gives him problems.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Problem
  • Defect

• God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • God
  • Physical
  • Defect

• The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Consequences
  • Ridiculous

• When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

  

  Carlos Beltran
  • Human
  • Born
  • Jesus Christ

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

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Woman
  • Defect
  • Peculiarity

• Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • True
  • Defect
  • Human Perfection

• Journalism is a character defect. I think most non-journalists would agree with this. It is life lived at a safe remove: standing off to one side of the parade as it passes, noting its flaws, offering glib and unworkable suggestions for its improvement. Every journalist must know that this is not, really, how a serious-minded person would choose to spend his days. Serious-minded people do things; a journalist chatters about the things serious-minded people do, and so, not coincidentally, avoids having to do them himself. A significant body of research indicates that non-journalists find us insufferable, perhaps for this reason.

  

  Andrew Ferguson
  • Character
  • Journalism
  • Chatters

• Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Business
  • Human
  • Pleasure

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Defect

• Defect-free software does not exist.

  

  Wietse Venema
  • Exist
  • Software
  • Defect