Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions…

— Michael Lewis

“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.”

— Paul Scott

Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is…

— John Stuart Mill

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a…

— Vincent Van Gogh

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…

— Rick Moody

“On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy. On a personal level,…

— George Soros

Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement…

— Janet Malcolm

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

— Eleanor Bron

Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

“The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. "I always…

— Michael Lewis

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written…

— Jimmy Carter

“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists…

— Basil Mahon

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are…

— Agnes Repplier

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge,…

— Carl Sagan

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook…

— Anonymous