Perfection Quotes
It is certain that during the sixteenth century, and the years that preceded and followed it, poisoning was brought to a perfection unknown to modern chemistry, as history itself will prove. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was, at this period, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are now lost.
Honor de Balzac
No one attains perfection by merely giving up work.
Bhagavad Gita
"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."
Oscar Wilde
Our peace and confidence are to be found not in our empirical holiness, not in our progress toward perfection, but in the alien righteousness of Jesus Christ that covers our sinfulness and alone makes us acceptable before a holy God.
Donald Bloesch
Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.
John Ruskin
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfilment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer
Sri Chinmoy
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved
Red Smith
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection
Red Smith
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty
Brooks Atkinson
The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation.
Bhagavad Gita
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth
Oscar Wilde
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens
