Fallibility Quotes
32 quotes by 27 authors
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When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down…
— Jimmy Carter
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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 I…
— Rick Moody
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The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
— Robert McNamara
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I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider…
— Hugh Walpole
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
— Gerald Brenan
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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
— Carl Sagan
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Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I…
— Kirk J. Schneider
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Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not know, Intelligence takes chances…
— Frank Herbert
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To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things…
— William Kentridge
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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 great…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to…
— John Cheever
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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
— D. V. Ager
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Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
— Eleanor Bron
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So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
— Michael A. Ledeen
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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
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Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
— Tom Hiddleston
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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…
— Eliot Spitzer
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The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of…
— Lewis Thomas
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As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.
— Ayelet Waldman
Who Wrote These Fallibility Quotes
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