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«That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.»
Author: Albert Pike (Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier) | Keywords: ache, ached, advance, causes, commence, commenced, commences, darkness, error, fill, gladness, happen, imperfection, improve, on trial, pass, pass through, reach, the darkness, The Light, The Trial, Trials, trial and error, triumph, yield, yield up
«The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.»
Author: Ben Okri | Keywords: fundamental, hinted, hinting, hints, imperfection, unease
«As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.»
Author: Ernst Fischer (Chemist, Educator) | Keywords: efficient, imperfection, machines
«Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness»
Author: Karen Nave | Keywords: forget, hard, imperfection, perfection, strive, strived, striven
«Perfection itself is imperfection.»
Author: Vladimir Horowitz | Keywords: imperfection
«There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.»
Author: H. G. Wells (Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist) | Keywords: Bridges, devices, imperfection, machinery, oblige, railway, railways, ugliness
«God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.»
Author: William Ellery Channing (Author, Clergyman) | Keywords: extended, human error, human intelligence, imperfection
«It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | Keywords: complains, imperfect, imperfection
«The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | Keywords: escape, escape from, imperfection, in order, reunite, reunited, tendency
«It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian) | Keywords: attain, imperfection, opposite, passing
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