Quotes About Fallibility

Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.

To err is human

Errare è umano, perdonare divino.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Real people have trouble with long division if they don't have a calculator, sometimes forget their spouse's birthday, and have a hangover on New Year's Day.

our understanding of human behavior can be improved by appreciating how people systematically go wrong.

Ninguém está certo o tempo todo, mas, numa guerra, quando um líder se engana, pessoas morrem.

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world – all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge only comes from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

Iniziamo a essere credibili nel momento in cui siamo trasparenti e ammettiamo di essere non infallibili.

We are not always right

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.

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