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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. -- Ambrose Bierce
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. -- Robert H. Schuller
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. -- Plato
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. -- E. T. Bell
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will? -- Cal Thomas
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. -- Robert Fitzgerald
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time. -- Franz Boas
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. -- Aldous Huxley
However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny? -- Nicholas Kristof
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? -- Henry David Thoreau
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly. -- Ani DiFranco
Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly. -- Plato
Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal. -- Sark
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft -- George Bernard Shaw
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. -- Walter Savage Landor
The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed. -- Anna Leonowens
There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned. -- Harrison Salisbury
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. -- E. T. Bell
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not. -- Ben Jonson
It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed. -- P. D. James
The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity... -- George Herbert
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. -- William Butler Yeats
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. -- Ambrose Bierce
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees. -- Richard Louv
Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it. -- Hans Arp
What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility. -- Albert Einstein
We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate. -- Nadar
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly! -- Jean de la Bruyere
Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads. -- George Bernard Shaw
Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes. -- Thom Gunn
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations. -- Carl Sagan
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! -- Pierre Corneille
And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly. -- Joshua Reynolds
At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat. -- George Santayana
I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else -- Bedrich Smetana
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God. -- Heber J. Grant
The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music. -- George Dardess
I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have our flaws. We've operated imperfectly. There are times we've made mistakes. -- Barack Obama

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