Top Defect Quotes
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Thomas Fuller
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Robert Lowell
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Mason Cooley
Benjamin Jowett 
Max Beerbohm 
Jonathan Swift 
Herman Melville 
Robert Lowell 
Benjamin Disraeli 
John Calvin 
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis 
69% of people like this quote
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Thomas Fuller
61% of people like this quote
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell
59% of people like this quote
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
Lu Xun
55% of people like this quote
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu
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