As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.” — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.” — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility…And the paradox of it all has been… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the… — Basil Mahon Copy Share Image
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
After readinf some essay on the nature of human fallibility, I was very aware that we are the recipients of a huge… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible.… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
“On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy. On a… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he… — Paul Sabatier Copy Share Image
“A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
“Even as to himself, a man cannot pretend to know what he is in himself from the knowledge he has by internal… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not know,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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