Point Defects

Famous quotes containing the words point and/or defects:

“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not expose any other way.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)