Quotes About Fallibility

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

Truth is immortal error is mortal.

Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds—and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

What struck Redelmeier wasn't the idea that people made mistakes. Of course people made mistakes! What was so compelling is that the mistakes were predictable and systematic. They seemed ingrained in human nature.

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?' he said. Which future superstar had they written off, or which future bust had they fallen in love with? If they don't give me a good one, I'm like, 'Fuck 'em.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

Credo che non ti amerei tanto se in te non ci fosse nulla da lamentare, nulla da rimpiangere. Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita.

Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita.

Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, che non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita.»

The funny thing about believing you can do no wrong is that you quickly begin doing nothing but wrong.

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

Oppenheimer was acutely attuned to the consequences of his actions, but, like Arjuna, he was also driven to do his duty. So duty (and ambition) overrode his doubts—though doubt remained, in the form of an ever-present awareness of human fallibility.

We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard.

Nobody in need of forgiveness deserves it," Konrad said. "Not one person. We all make foolish mistakes that we cannot fix. Though we may not deserve forgiveness, we all have a right to it. Just for having the courage to live in this difficult world, where fallible people do imperfect things. The supply of forgiveness is unlimited." "The name of the Unforgiving Blade is no accident

We can't know everything - and some of what we think we know is going to turn out to be false.

Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.

assumed both the capability and the fallibility of human reason.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.