Human Imperfection Quotes:

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person

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

topic: Perfection, Hints, Stories, Perfection And Imperfection, Human Imperfection

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

- George Soros

topic: Mistake, Failure, Understanding, Fear Of Failing, Past Mistakes

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

- William Ellery Channing

topic: Names, Errors, Imperfection, Human Imperfection

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

- Soren Kierkegaard

source: The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1841.

topic: Men, Opposites, Imperfection, Perfection And Imperfection, Human Imperfection

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

- Rita Levi-Montalcini

source: "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.

topic: Years, Perfection, Long, Intellectual Development, End Results

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

- John Ruskin

topic: Happiness, Law, Expression, Irregularity, Symmetry

There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Eye, Life And Death, Imperfection, Human Imperfection

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

topic: Dream, Integrity, Reading, Recess, Public Image

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Writing, Ratios, Reason, Human Imperfection

It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.

- Mark Levin

source: Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Children, Makeup, Blood, Human Imperfection

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

topic: Art, Recovery, Perfect, Compilation, Human Imperfection