Home / Topics / Faults Quotes

Faults Quotes

Browse 2356 quotes about Faults.

Faults Quotes

“Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.”

Doe Art Knowing Missing Design Position Balance Faults Objectives Compromise Designer Not Knowing Optimum Optimization Jay Gould

Author:William A. Dembski

“You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.”

Next Faults Theatre Cards Birthday The Next One

Author:Preston Sturges

“The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”

Ifs Writing Attention Ought Faults Prose

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

“You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.”

Knows Use Courses Language Journey Movement Lays Assuming Faults Our Family Fixed Grandmother Going Away Permit My Grandmother Verbs

Author:Amitav Ghosh

“Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.”

World Wish Stars Faults Factories Fault In Our Stars

Author:Ansel Elgort

“I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which will correct physical faults and prepare a dancer for any type of dancing he may wish to follow; a technique having all the basic movements which govern the actions of the body; combined with a knowledge of the origin of movement and a sense of artistic design.”

Trying Humans May Body Action Wish Knowledge Design Movement Type Exercise Creating Dancing Faults Dance Technique Senses Artistic Dancer Sincerely Anatomy Correcting Choreographers

Author:Lester Horton

“Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.”

Ifs Play Games Faults Opponents Gamer

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.”

Made Mistake Issues Week Media Serious Bears Reader Terrible Faults My Time Editors Reporters Apologizing Essays April Columns Similarity New Yorkers Paragraph Lapses I Apologize

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.”

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.”

People Heart Persons Perfect Lord Sadness Tears Regret Accounts Sight Praise Faults Judgement Accountability Imperfection Rejoice Traits Sigh Brotherly Loving Me

Author:Saint Augustine

“Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job...No one told me...It couldn't be helped." True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability. -Dan Zadra It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

Children Made Ends Jobs Easy Responsibility Expression Adults Consequence Faults Accountability Small Child True Freedom Dodge Personal Accountability

Author:Josiah Stamp

“Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.”

Men Made Advice Please Faults Deeper Observation Folly Superiority Vulgar Surveys Censure

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.”

Men Giving Reason Voice Wise Advice Fame Dignity Importance Grateful Faults Appearance Folly Temporary Virtuous Superiority Neighbour Being Wise Elevation Detection High Prices Insensible

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal.”

Wells Shows Known Advice Willing Regret Hatred Lays Assuming Faults Unexpected Grants Offensive Superiority Accusation Persecuted Convicts

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.”

Hands Seems Given Advice Medicine Faults Rejection Rejects Vehicle Efficacy

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson

“The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.”

Source: In Search of True Freedom

“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”

Ifs Way Faces Humanity Willing Goes On Faults Greed Disappear Globes Replaced Insects Willing To Change

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly; Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, Subjected tribute to commanding love, Against whose fury and unmatched force The aweless lion could not wage the fight Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.”

Needs Heart Hands Earth Fighting Force Sin Bears Lays Faults Privilege Stupidity Folly Lions Fury Tribute

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.”

Source: Poetical works

“Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.”

Use Language Existence Break Elements Advantage Faults Everyday Tennis Miniatures

Book:The Whirl

Source: The Whirl

“But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.”

Self Problem Economy Involved Waste Faults Bottom Greed Producers Lazy Passive Unlimited Recycling Self Indulgent Symbiosis

Book:What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

“And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.”

Shapes Faults Envy Jealousy Jealous Not Jealous

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.”

Fall Sin Christianity Faults Hypocrite

Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

“A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.”

People May Two Ends Play Reality Jesus Faults Sincere Fraud Hypocrite

Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.”

Needs Feels Materials Faults Arise Materialism Urgent

Book:Hitch-22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are”

Needs Evil Mankind Ignorance Faults Corruption Convenience Imposing Forsake Credulity Incitement

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”

Knows Feels Mean Grows Learning Wise Subjects Judging Instruments Faults Self Knowledge Wiser

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!”

Men Love Bears Faults Love Is Hard

Book:The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion

Source: The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion

“I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

Has Beens Country Interest Leader Accepting Taken One Thing Normal Faults Israel Scary Agreement Nazi Stolen Israeli Anti Semitism Zionist Zionism Auschwitz True God Jewish National

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.”

Men Lying Sun Moon Rose Faults Clouds Corruption Silver Mud Fountain Sweetest Thorns Bud Stains Eclipse Imperfect World Moon And Sun Eclipse Of The Sun

Author:William Shakespeare

“Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our own way, we still have a choice as to how we separate. We can separate with bad feelings, blaming the other's faults and unacceptable behaviour, or we can separate with forgiveness, love and understanding.”

Way Heart May Stills Sometimes Feelings Choices Understanding Broken Blame Faults Satisfaction Partners Breakup Broken Heart Behaviour Nevertheless Forgiveness Love

Author:Peter Russell

“Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.”

Life Happiness Spirituality Findings Faults Sufi Wisdom

Author:Muhammad

“I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.”

Looks Findings Training Faults Buddhist Bowls

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.”

Done Faults Buddhist Undone Omission Dhammapada

Author:Gautama Buddha

“One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.”

Men Should Wise Advantage Faults Guides Treasure Buddhist Buried Disadvantages Rebuke Buried Treasure

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others”

Inspirational Kindness Humility Mindfulness Faults Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.”

Hard Faces Easy Brother Faults Buddhist Your Brother Real Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.”

Hard Easy Faults Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.”

Done Left Pay Attention Buddhism Faults Oneself Helping Others Buddhist Things Done Undone Spiritual Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”

Eye Jesus Brother Faults Beam Sermon On The Mount Fault Finding

Author:Luke the Evangelist

“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.”

People Ifs Mistake Accepting Acceptance Failure Perfection Faults Making Mistakes Imperfection Great Mistakes I Make Mistakes I Have Made Mistakes People Make Mistakes

Author:David D. Burns

“Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.”

Looks Done Religious Faults

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.”

Love Virtue Hatred Faults Love Hate

Author:Moses ibn Ezra

“Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.”

Bears Faults Betrayal Betray

Author:Publilius Syrus

“To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.”

Next Faults Innocent Confession Confessing Keeping Secrets

Author:Publilius Syrus

“How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.”

Way Heart Ends Hard Faces Easy Meditation Journey Sky Brother Wind Faults Cheat Dwelling Covering Your Brother Unlucky

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.”

Wells Looks Shows Company Compassion Wise Faults Ill Treasure Checks Look Up Sage Reproof

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”

Thinking Wisdom Action Political Faith Compassion Criticism Praise Faults Faithful Greek Words And Actions Socratic

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their biblical but their unbiblical view of nature. Christians have long failed to understand what the Bible really teaches concerning nature and our responsibility for it. For this there is no excuse. Repentance must be our first response. Our second response must then be to right the wrongs of our faulty understanding and act accordingly. We are all responsible to know what can be known of God's will for nature, and we are then responsible to act on that knowledge.”

“Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”