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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know. -- Moliere
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. -- Erich Fromm
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. -- Francois Mauriac
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. -- Joseph Addison
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman. -- Amy Grant
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human. -- John Galliano
People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses. -- Carlisle Floyd
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. -- Barbara Bush
The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness. -- Blake Lively
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. -- Markus Wolf
Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose. -- Bokeem Woodbine
I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel. -- Emma Bell
The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human. -- Randeep Hooda
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. -- Ann Landers
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. -- Cory Booker
I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable. -- Patricia Heaton
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. -- Dave Davies
We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me. -- Lynn Shelton
All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength -- Prabhukrishna M
God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness. -- Andy Stanley
That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength. -- Peter Ustinov
Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest. -- Woody Allen
Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness. -- Halford Mackinder
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself. -- Tennessee Williams
Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it. -- Leigh Bardugo
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. -- Blaise Pascal
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. -- Max Brooks
There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength. -- Tom Wicker
Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers. -- T. Mills
The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. -- Michael Scott
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination. -- Norman Douglas
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity. -- David Hume
Perhaps her requirements were too great,Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,For her attempts to form a friendship had alwaysEnded in disappointment. -- A.L.O.E.
Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people. -- Napoleon Hill
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character. -- Thomas Jefferson
If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life. -- Jeremy Piven
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine. -- Baruch Spinoza
Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion. -- Donald Curtis
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. -- Thomas Jefferson
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber. -- Jane Austen
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it. -- David Hume
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. -- James Russell Lowell
Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. -- Charles Spurgeon
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them. -- Robert Ringer
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe. -- Alain de Botton
Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and...in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers. -- Gregory of Nyssa
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness! -- Henri Weenink
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization. -- Arthur Koestler

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