Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. — Nicola Abbagnano Copy Share Image
“When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the… — Winston s. Churchill Copy Share Image
The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of… — Simon Critchley 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
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
“Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading. — George Eliot 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
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky 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
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions… — Ziauddin Sardar Copy Share Image
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility… — Neville Cardus 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
Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in… — Steven Pressfield 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
emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for… — Anonymous 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
“When interpreted as infallible, the truth claims of powerful institutions — whether religious or secular — tend to emphasise the fallibility of… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people might be fallible, why we might fail to do what we try to do isignorance, that we… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“as Schulz himself has pointed out, Snoopy is capable of being 'one of the meanest' members of the entire Peanuts cast ...… — Robert L. Short 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
“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
“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
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I'm still here, living proof that sometimes it's OK to admit to your fallibility. — Dido Harding 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
“A fuller vision comes from our ability to recognize the fallibility in our current and past forms of sight.” — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than an uninspired, fallible passage.” — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image