PERFECTION QUOTES
quotations about perfection
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Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
GARRISON KEILLOR, "The Art of Travel," A Prairie Home Companion, Jul. 28, 2009
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache.... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
GEORGE ORWELL, Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun
Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
There’s no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there’d be no challenge. Also, you’d feel inferior. If somebody is that perfect, how can you not think of yourself as being so imperfect next to him? I think people are perfect in their imperfections.
JESSICA ALBA, Maxim Magazine, Nov. 2003
Perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to John Jay, Aug. 1, 1786
We see but in dreams the ideal.
The perfection of her face created a sense of emptiness--like a house with no curtains in the window.
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
TERESA OF AVILA, The Interior Castle
The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.
DEAN KOONTZ, Dark Rivers of the Heart
From the moment perfection is attained, 'tis gone.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Various are mens dispositions and abilities, and by their different characters, they discover different degrees of perfection.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.
FRANK HERBERT, Dune Messiah
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Perfection is an undiscovered jewel.
- All perfect things are saddening in effect.
- The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes,
- The matchless tinting on the royal rose
- Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked.
- Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked
- Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows,
- These hold a deeper pathos than our woes,
- Since they leave nothing better to expect.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Perfectness"
Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Jun. 16, 1811
Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. Would it be at all astonishing if, from the universal dice-box, out of an innumberable number of throws, there should be thrown out one world infinitely perfect? Nay, does not the calculus of probabilities prove to us that one such world out of an infinite number, must be produced of necessity?
WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE, Remarks on the Science of History
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
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