Foibles Quotes

• Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Weakness, Lovable

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• Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

  Publilio Sirio

  Friendship, Betrayal, Allowance

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• I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Challenges, Triumph

  Fuente: wwd.com

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• If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stars, Rocks, Hands

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 (Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by E. Payne, 1974.

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• A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Faults, Lovable

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• A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.

  William Osler

  Book, Character, Men

  Sir William Osler, Osler Library (1969). “Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science”, p.10, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, Humanity, Intellectual

  Fuente: blankonblank.org

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• Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

  Hannah Más

  Spring, Half, Misery

  Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338

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• I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

  Denise Mina

  Thinking, Negative, Flaws

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• Hay dos tipos de humor. Uno es el que nos hace reírnos de nuestras debilidades y de nuestra humanidad común, como hace Garrison Keillor. El otro tipo expone a la gente al desprecio público y al ridículo, como hago yo. La sátira es tradicionalmente el arma de los impotentes contra los poderosos. Yo sólo apunto a los poderosos. Cuando la sátira se dirige a los indefensos, no sólo es cruel, sino vulgar.

  Molly Ivins

  Poderoso, Dos, Personas

  "The Mouth of Texas", People Weekly, December 9, 1991.

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• A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

  Joseph Conrad

  Escritura, Hombres, Compañeros

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• Cuando escribes, en cierto modo lo haces a partir de lo que consideras tu mejor yo, la parte de ti que carece de debilidades, egoísmos, vanidades, etcétera. Sólo intentas decir algo lo más sincero posible a partir de lo mejor que llevas dentro.

  Salman Rushdie

  Escribir, Pensar, Vanidad

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

  Paul Klee

  Distance, Lying, Garden

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• A forte always makes a foible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Forte

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• El médico, como cualquier otra persona que tiene que tratar con seres humanos, cada uno de ellos único, no puede ser un científico; o bien es, como el cirujano, un artesano, o bien, como el médico y el psicólogo, un artista. Esto significa que, para ser un buen médico, un hombre debe tener también un buen carácter, es decir, cualesquiera que sean sus debilidades y flaquezas, debe amar a sus semejantes en lo concreto y desear su bien antes que el suyo propio.

  W. H. Auden

  Amor, Carácter, Malo

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• Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn't mind (and the animal rarely does), I don't mind, and I don't see why anyone else should.

  Frank Kameny

  Animal, Long, People

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• When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things that are unexpected, and makes you laugh and cry because of his human flaws and foibles.

  Andrew Lam

  Character, Laughing, Misunderstood

  "'Las aves del paraíso perdido': Una conversación con el autor Andrew Lam". Entrevista con Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. 5 de marzo de 2013.

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• De todas las debilidades humanas, el amor por la vida es la más poderosa.

  Moliere

  Vida, Potente, Inspirar

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• No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it. So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are.

  Aisha Tyler

  Pensar, Gente, Querer

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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• What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Dream, Children, Fun

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• But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Believe, Humanity, Religion

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• I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Thinking, Gone, Curse

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Sep 07, 2011

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• When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, People, Essentials

  Fuente: www.teemingbrain.com

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• A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

  William Osler

  Mind, Library, Weakness

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• If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.

  James Burgh

  Kings, Blessing, Thrones

  James Burgh (1794). “The Dignity of Human Nature; or, a Brief account of the certain and established means for attaining the true end of our existence ... By J. B. (James Burgh.)”, p.31

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