Deficiency Quotes

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

One of the things we know is that, frequently, it`s a reading deficiency that is keeping kids from being able to do more rigorous coursework.

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?