Quotes About Fallibility

Eventually you'll be next. Eventually you'll disappoint him, and he'll feel betrayed by you. Idols always fall, Eve.

A lot of people know they're right, when what they are is wrong. Having doubts keeps you human.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

Because all of us have been wrong on various occasions, engaged in cruelty and hypocrisy, and we've forgotten most of those occasions. And that means we don't really know ourselves.

Porque todos nos hemos equivocado en diversas ocasiones, hemos actuado con crueldad e hipocresía, y todos hemos olvidado la mayoría de esas ocasiones. Y eso significa que en realidad no nos conocemos

I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

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.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call constantly into question the very tales we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.

We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.

Society hardly ever follows its blueprint, a fact that makes comparisons extremely difficult and judgments more than usually fallible.

What are man's truths after all? They are man's irrefutable errors.

Anger is a form of dishonesty. Nobody is perfect. It's a lie to expect the people around you to be perfect.

Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn't it? They spill so much of other people's blood.

To give advice to a tyrant was to suggest his fallibility and offer oneself as a scapegoat should things go wrong.