One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac Disraeli

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.
Dixie Lee Ray

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
C. Everett Koop

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Thomas Mann

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Jacques Maritain

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. Somerset Maugham