QuoteProject
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Yogi Berra
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

Imperfection is a fundamental aspect of existence.

This quote by Yogi Berra highlights the paradox of perfection, suggesting that if the world were truly perfect, it would contradict the very notion of perfection itself. It emphasizes the idea that flaws and imperfections are intrinsic to life, making it rich and meaningful.

Themes

ImperfectionLifeWorldExistencePhilosophy

In practice

Example use cases

In a discussion about life's challenges, one might say, 'As Yogi Berra wisely noted, if the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.'

More from Yogi Berra

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."
Yogi BerraRead
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
Yogi BerraRead
We're lost, but we're making good time.
Yogi BerraRead
Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
Yogi BerraRead
I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.
Yogi BerraRead
You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
Yogi BerraRead

Similar quotes

The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
Albert J. NockRead
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
Lois Mcmaster BujoldRead
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
Ralph ChaplinRead
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
Don DelilloRead
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl KrausRead
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
Thomas JeffersonRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.