Top 55 Quotes About Fallibility
#1. 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
#2. A fuller vision comes from our ability to recognize the fallibility in our current and past forms of sight.
Sarah Lewis
#3. The fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
George Eliot
#4. Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Nicola Abbagnano
#5. 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
#6. Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.
Neville Cardus
#7. Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
Eliot Spitzer
#8. The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds.
Lewis Thomas
#9. The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
Robert McNamara
#10. Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
Justin Welby
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.
Stephen Jay Gould
#14. As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.
Ayelet Waldman
#15. I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility ... And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.
Rick Moody
#16. My readiness to admit to my fallibility is perhaps rather English, but I hope that the problems I describe will be familiar to doctors and patients everywhere.
Henry Marsh
#17. Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER
Paul David Tripp
#18. Our greatest challenge today ... is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.
Kirk J. Schneider
#19. Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van Gogh
#20. 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
#21. The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible.
Eric Schlosser
#22. Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Gerald Brenan
#23. Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility.
Elton Trueblood
#24. Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
D. V. Ager
#25. 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
#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. Intelligence is not a prerequisite for safe flying, but an acceptance of human fallibility is, and the two are generally linked.
William Langewiesche
#28. To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#29. 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
#30. When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.
Bryant McGill
#31. That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!
Vincent Van Gogh
#32. If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
Ludwig Von Mises
#33. A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
George Eliot
#34. When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible.
Bryant McGill
#35. I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.
Janny Wurts
#37. We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.
Will Durant
#38. An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than an uninspired, fallible passage.
Robert M. Price
#39. Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.
Sigmund Freud
#40. No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.
Marty Rubin
#41. Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.
Paul C. Nagel
#43. Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")
Neil Gaiman
#44. We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
Ian McDonald
#45. You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
Winston S. Churchill
#47. 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
#48. It is impossible not to make mistakes during a war.
Roma Tearne
#49. 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
#50. The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.
Richard M. Weaver
#51. 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
#53. The democratic age mourns the value of human beings.
Harold Bloom
#54. 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
#55. The emperor is just a man, after all.
Ken Liu
