Quotes About Fallibility

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.

If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent.

I'm not going to be perfect on the field, I'm not going to be perfect in my postgame answers or any media session.

Even individuals we admire can have skeletons in their closet.

One point of this book is to remind us that imperfection is the rule, not the exception.

Let's face it, our memories aren't perfect. We don't get anything exactly right.

Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?

there is not one good man on earth who does what is best* and doesn't err.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

the idea that our minds are susceptible to systematic errors is now generally accepted.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Anyone claiming to be perfect at what they do is proof they don't know what the hell they're doing.

You are never so certain as when you don't know just how wrong you can be

The wisest of the wise may err.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

I may," said Poirot in a completely unconvinced tone, "be wrong." Morton smiled. "But that doesn't often happen to you?" "No. Though I will admit - yes, I am forced to admit - that it has happened to me." "I must say I'm glad to hear it! To be always right must be sometimes monotonous." "I do not find it so," Poirot assured him.

people are capable of surprising one frightfully. One gets an idea of them into one's head, and sometimes it's absolutely wrong. Not always - but sometimes.

It is a necessary condition of rationality that a man shall formulate his beliefs in such a way that it is clear what evidence would be evidence against them and that he shall lay himself open to criticism and refutation ... But to foreclose on tolerance is precisely to cut oneself off from such criticism and refutation. It is gravely to endanger one's own rationality by not admitting one's own fallibility.

But without fallibility there is no art. And without art there is no truth.