Deficiency Quotes
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.
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When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
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Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
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A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.
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You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.
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Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
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... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.
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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
