Quotes About Fallibility

My daughter, I am not a Mrs Whatsit, a Mrs Who, or a Mrs Which. Yes, Calvin has told me everything he could. I am a human being, and a very fallible one. But I agree with Calvin. We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.

Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

we come to understand how easy it is to be confident in our opinions and yet spectacularly wrong.

Siempre que tenga deseos y aspiraciones, el hombre puede equivocarse.

We would rather admit our moral errors, mistakes and crimes than our scientific errors.

One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.

Belief in an infallible God does not make one infallible.

To meet someone who you look up to like they are gods and goddesses, sometimes that person can disappoint you a bit.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

It's so easy to be wrong about the things you're close to. I know that now. I learned that then.

This book has no pretensions to infallibility, let alone to omniscience.

Did two good people do something they knew was wrong because there was some kind of magical chemistry involved? Or was it plain old human fallibility, weakness in the face of temptation?

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Adults make mistakes too.

Stupid — this assumption people have, that things should somehow be right.

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.