#imperfect

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

#condition #correct #failing #human #human condition

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#imperfectly #nothing #perfectly #something #than

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#answer #buttons #ever #exactly #imperfect

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

— William Ellery Channing

#another #error #extended #god #human

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting #courage #honesty #humble #humility

If gold rusts, what then can iron do? ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#fallibility #flaws #gold #imperfection #inspirational

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect. ↗

— Sarah MacLean

#perfect #life

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her." (Letter, 17 June 1837) ↗

— George Sand

#gender #imperfections #inequality #men #mysogyny

You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which I rather wish were erased, than conceal'd from you. Do not judge by this, that your opinion is an indifferent thing to me, (were it so, I should look forward with a heavey Heart,) but it is far otherways, for I had rather stand fair there, and be thought well of by Lysander than by the greater part of the World besides. I would fain hope that those faults which you discover, proceed more, from a wrong Head, than a bad Heart. E'er long May I be connected with a Friend from whose Example I may form a more faultless conduct, and whose benevolent mind will lead him to pardon, what he cannot amend. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#historical #humanity #imperfection #inspiring #love