#fault

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#atonement #equally #eternal #every #fault

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#america #because #best #faults #happiness

When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down. ↗

— John Hawkes

#down #fault #find #gets #look

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#always #begins #everything #fault #finding

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. ↗

— George Herbert

#dare #fault #grows #lie #most

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ↗

— George Herbert

#calm #error #fault #makes #truth

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. ↗

— Hippocrates

#also #faults #keep #lie #make

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. ↗

— Horace

#fools #into #opposite #run #set

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#failure #fault #i #lack #passions

It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #beauty