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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient. -- Laurie Helgoe
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter. -- Martin Heidegger
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. -- Salman Rushdie
The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard. -- Samuel George Morton
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient. -- Alan Cooper
Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer. -- Joel Fuhrman
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. -- Hilary Mantel
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease. -- Joel Fuhrman
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. -- Toni Morrison
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. -- Adam Weishaupt
You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently. -- Seth Berkley
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. -- Washington Irving
Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries. -- Mark Hyman
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy. -- William John Wills
The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements. -- Seth Shostak
My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path. -- Tara Brach
The grandest virtue seems deficient. -- Laozi
About 70 percent of pregnant women are deficient in Vitamin D. -- Chris Mohr
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. -- Dominique Bouhours
Probe him and learn where his strength is abundant and where deficient. -- Sun Tzu
Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent. -- John Mott
Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient. -- Paul Virilio
...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying. -- Carol S. Dweck
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. -- Ian Mcewan
It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people. -- Steven Morrissey
Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient. -- Frank Gehry
Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient. -- Jerome Frank
Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient. -- William A. Dembski
Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy. -- James M. Barrie
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were. -- Duke of Wellington
You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient. -- Katie MacAlister
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient. -- Sun Tzu
Give thinking the opportunity to be your everyday meal; you get nourished by the best success nutrients. You will never be deficient! -- Israelmore Ayivor
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles. -- Sissela Bok
I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive. -- David Papineau
Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants. -- Paul Greengard
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
An ordinary intellect will, by industry and perseverance, often accomplish more than a much superior one, deficient in energy and the power of endurance. -- L. G. Abell
It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength. -- Edmund Burke
And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you. -- Julia Quinn
Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity. -- Benjamin
Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time. -- Peter Drucker
An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence -- Christopher Hitchens
[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean. -- Aristotle
Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball? -- Peter Pook
It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection. -- Richard Whately
A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development. -- Idries Shah
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts. -- Charles Stross
I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on. -- Joe Frank
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart. -- Tara Brach
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character. -- Orestes Brownson
Donald Trump doesn't think that he's deficient. Trump doesn't think that he's lacking. Trump doesn't think he needs advisers to tell him what he thinks. Trump is supremely, eminently confident. -- Rush Limbaugh
Donald Trump doesn't think that he's deficient. Trump doesn't think that he's lacking. Trump doesn't think he needs advisers to tell him what he thinks. Trump is supremely, eminently confident. -- Rush Limbaugh
Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough. -- Steve Kroft
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. -- Toni Morrison
In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable. -- Socrates
I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems ... In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried. -- Andrew Weil
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. -- Oscar Wilde
We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed -- Thomas Gilovich

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