Quotes About Fallibility

Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily.

But there exists not one man who never errs. We would be gods. And gods didn't apologize. Men did.

Van, Van, we're only simple, fallible mortals - we aren't saints, we aren't angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -

In his endeavor to select the most promising stocks either for the near term or the longer future, the investor faces obstacles of two kinds—the first stemming from human fallibility and the second from the nature of his competition. He may be wrong in his estimate of the future; or even if he is right, the current market price may already fully reflect what he is anticipating.

Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

Aristóteles podia ter evitado o erro de pensar que as mulheres têm menos dentes do que os homens simplesmente pedindo à Sra. Aristóteles que abrisse a boca enquanto os contava. Não o fez porque estava convencido de que sabia. Pensar que sabemos algo quando na verdade não sabemos é um erro fatal, a que todos somos vulneráveis.

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth who does good and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20

Among those norms are free speech, nonviolence, cooperation, cosmopolitanism, human rights, and an acknowledgment of human fallibility, and among the institutions are science, education, media, democratic government, international organizations, and markets. Not coincidentally, these were the major brainchildren of the Enlightenment

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human.

You're the one who can do no wrong." "I do plenty wrong." "You don't have to tell me.

MPs put ourselves at the behest of the British people, certainly, but we are not infallible or devoid of sensitivity.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

Revolutionaries are not infallible.

No one is infallible. I am not the only director who has flopped.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

It was fine to argue that murderers always made mistakes, and sometimes they did. And sometimes they didn't, and there you were.

I say "very little doubt" rather than "no doubt" because, of course, I can be fooled as easily as anyone. The stupidest men are the ones who think they can't be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don't know what they don't know.

Everyman's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such things as a collective conscious. / You never saw him as a man with a man's heart, and a man's failings - I'll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes 'em like all of us. ?Go Set a Watchman?

We're all wrong, every one of us.

The real challenge for executives who want to implement decision quality control is not time or cost. It is the need to build awareness that even highly experienced, superbly competent, and well-intentioned managers are fallible. Organizations need to realize that a disciplined decision-making process, not individual genius, is the key to a sound strategy. And they will have to create a culture of open debate in which such processes can flourish. Originally

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Even we can get things wrong sometimes.