Top 36 Human Fallibility Quotes
#1. Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility.
Elton Trueblood
#2. To really have that awareness, to be as open as possible, all the time, to beauty and cruelty and stupid human fallibility and unexpected grace.
Joel Lovell
#3. Intelligence is not a prerequisite for safe flying, but an acceptance of human fallibility is, and the two are generally linked.
William Langewiesche
#4. Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet.
Carl Sagan
#5. Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
Justin Welby
#6. The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
Robert McNamara
#7. You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
Carl Sagan
#8. Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.
Tim Curry
#9. Verity didn't mind bogeymen - they were pretty nice, mostly, if you didn't let them talk you into doing anything you weren't supposed to do - but
Seanan McGuire
#10. I'm John Morrison, and if God have 2 sons i would be the better looking one.
John Morrison
#11. I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.
Janny Wurts
#12. He's like a deer; I don't want to make any sudden movements and startle his thoughts away.
Sandy Hall
#13. He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.
Eugene V. Debs
#15. It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.
Charles Kennedy
#16. In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
Rumi
#17. So I've got five books, a building, and a hundred bucks.
I'm starting my business tomorrow.
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
#18. Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
Carl Sagan
#19. The fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
George Eliot
#20. As soon as your dream becomes stronger than your doubts & fears, your dream begins to manifest.
Mark Allen
#21. I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which is in its principles a wise and good one, and vigorous in its operations.
Alexander Hamilton
#22. Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#23. The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?
Robert McKee
#24. I always, always wanted to be the Dungeon Master because that's where the creativity lies - in thinking up places, characters and situations. If done well, a game can be a novel in itself.
Sharyn McCrumb
#25. The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.
Simon Critchley
#26. Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#27. I'm a fallible human being - but if I were to react to that knowledge with fear/defensiveness then how would I move forward?
Jay Woodman
#28. Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.
James Montgomery
#29. It is impossible not to make mistakes during a war.
Roma Tearne
#30. I have to accept that difficult stuff happens & there's no point in getting worked up about it. I'm a fallible human being ...
Jay Woodman
#31. questions of what we're supposed to or not supposed to do aren't even in it; if we tried to go around, we'd find circumstances forcing us back.
Stephen King
#32. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible.
Eric Schlosser
#34. The democratic age mourns the value of human beings.
Harold Bloom
#35. Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
Mark Twain
#36. We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.
Kilroy J. Oldster