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Faulty intuitions often get us into trouble." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Almost All Problem Areas Of Your Life Are Caused By Faulty Belief Systems. You Are The Cause Of Your Problems And You Are The Solution To Your Problems. -- John Kehoe
Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination. -- Fred Reinfeld
No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas. -- Brendan Myers
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. -- Ambrose Bierce
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. -- Gene Roddenberry
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion. -- Ron Kind
The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated? -- James Stephens
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. -- Helen Rowland
Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. -- Plutarch
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be. -- Alice Dreger
I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it. -- Gary Johnson
It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love. -- David Rakoff
It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty. -- Chris Pine
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around. -- Penn Jillette
We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all. -- Jackie Speier
I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one. -- Mike Rutherford
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side. -- Andrew Taylor Still
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day. -- Kurt Vonnegut
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless. -- William Wilberforce
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. -- Terry Gross
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.' -- Lili Taylor
But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us." -- Rick Riordan
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One makes their own luck, good or ill... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration." -- Richard A. Knaak
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be." -- Ambrose Bierce
Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts." -- Christopher Hawke
To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul." -- Socrates
A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions." -- Gian Kumar
I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty." -- Herman Melville
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday." -- Mark Twain
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men." -- Shusaku Endo
Oh my God, calm down, Darwin. Don't get all crazy just 'cause I threw a vampire monkey wrench in your faulty Jesus-zombie logic." -- Jenny Lawson
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -- Gene Roddenberry
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion." -- Ron Kind
Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living." -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann Dick
The heart is a vital organ, but it is a faulty guide to conduct. It is the mind makes judgements and comparisons, furnishes evidence on which ideas of truth can be founded." -- Barry Unsworth
But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though it's nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in." -- Clementine von Radics
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...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures." -- Mary Shelley
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!" -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side." -- Andrew Taylor Still
Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do? to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street." -- Stephen King
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory." -- Terry Gross
...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing. (p. 21)" -- Robin R. Meyers
The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority--whether religious, racial, genetic, cultural, or institutional--rather than an accident of timing or geography." -- Jeffrey D. Sachs
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.'" -- Lili Taylor
My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that." -- Sebastian Faulks
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them." -- Orson Scott Card
It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors." -- Haki R. Madhubuti
The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed. Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment." -- Jane Austen
Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!" -- Mehmet Murat ildan
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day." -- Alan Wilson Watts
Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives." -- William A. Dembski
The faulty stands on his guard. -- George Herbert
But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us. -- Rick Riordan
Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions. -- Geoff Tate
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty. -- Nikolai Gogol
The fault is as great as hee that is faulty. -- George Herbert
Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed. -- Confucius
I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty. -- Michel de Montaigne
Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable. -- John Masefield
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A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life. -- Joan D. Vinge
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little. -- George S. Patton
I want to weigh less, not through diet and exercise, but by acquiring a faulty scale. -- Jarod Kintz
A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need. -- Plutarch
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique. -- Edward Weston
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ... -- George Eliot
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge -- Albert Bandura
...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation. -- Dalai Lama
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. -- Ambrose Bierce
When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief. -- Paula White
They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store. -- Robert Browning
It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars. -- Phil Angelides
Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours. -- Leon Brown
Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable. -- John Masefield
Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side. -- Nora Roberts
Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia. -- Vera Nazarian
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. -- Mark Twain
I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate -- Doris Lessing
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. -- Aaron T. Beck
The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it! -- Samuel R. Delany
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men. -- Shusaku Endo
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it. -- Robert Henri
Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic. -- Eden Robinson
Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief. -- Leon Brown
Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site. -- Warren Farrell
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need. -- Barry Commoner
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. -- James A. Garfield
We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble. -- W. Brian Arthur
I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again. -- David Jeremiah
As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow -- Ray Bergman
I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode." "It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. " I am sure of this. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass. -- Charlie Brooker
I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.' -- Hugo Wolf
...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with. -- Samuel Richardson
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality. -- Paul Tournier
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge. -- Roger Bacon

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