Quotes About Fallibility

As coaches, whether we're making personnel decisions or not, we're all critical of ourselves. We always want to get better. We push our players to do that. But nobody bats 1.000.

It is not human to be wise," said Blood. "It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

The laws of men are not infallible.

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

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

I am only human, although I regret it.

laws are made by human beings and human beings are not infallible. We make laws for all kinds of reasons, and not always the right ones. One of the most powerful motivations for the enactment of legislation is fear, and when you act out of fear, you risk becoming exactly the kind of monster you're trying to bar the door against. I

Intelligence is not a prerequisite for safe flying, but an acceptance of human fallibility is, and the two are generally linked.

SOCRATES: No, I am not sure of anything. I never have been. But the god explained to me why that must be so, starting with the fallibility of the human mind and the unreliability of sensory experience.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

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.

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.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.