Quotes About Fallibility

Nici inteligen?a, nici talentul, nici geniul nu l-au împiedicat vreodat? pe om s? se în?ele. Ba s-ar zice c?, din contr?, ele îl ajut? s? se cufunde ?i mai departe în ceea ce constituie profunzimea ?i sumbra str?lucire a r?t?cirii.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

We all suffer from flawed thinking and decision making.

Parents are human beings. Human beings screw things up. It's inevitable.

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

We tend to assume that our hearts are pure, that we usually do the right thing, that we're better than average in almost every way you can imagine. Of course this is statistically impossible; it's just a comforting delusion. And

Against the paranoia that easily infests either Establishment dogma and anti-Establishment dogma, the only defense I see is agnosticism, well-flavored with a sense of humor, and an awareness of one's own fallibility. I suspect a great deal, but as long as Government Secrets exist, I am not sure of anything.

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

The ancient god created the ancient man, i.e., the man capable of mistakes, ergo the ancient god himself made a mistake.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring—hence he erred himself.

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

I know what you're thinking.Girlfriend has fallen out of the stoopid tree and bonked her head against every branch on the way down.

The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible.

Our survey measure rated three behavioral attributes of leadership inclusiveness: one, leaders were approachable and accessible; two, leaders acknowledged their fallibility; and three, leaders proactively invited input from other staff, physicians, and nurses. The concept of leadership inclusiveness thus captures situational humility coupled with proactive inquiry (discussed in the next section).

I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

My predictions are notably inaccurate.

Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human.

Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.

Never to imagine that any of these generalizations we make about gods or men is valid, but to cherish them because they carry in them the fallibility of our own minds.

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.