1,286 Quotes About Perfection

In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.